Study of Pharmacotherapy of Psychotic Depression

Summary

This study will determine the effectiveness of combining selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) with antipsychotic medications in the treatment of psychotic depression.

Timeline

Start

2003-01

Primary completion

2008-06

Completion

2008-06

Publications

• Kruizinga J, Liemburg E, Burger H, Cipriani A, Geddes J, Robertson L, Vogelaar B, Nolen WA. Pharmacological treatment for psychotic depression. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Dec 7;12(12):CD004044. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004044.pub5.
• Bingham KS, Meyers BS, Mulsant BH, Rothschild AJ, Whyte EM, Banerjee S, Artis AS, Alexopoulos GS, Flint AJ; STOP-PD Study Group. Stabilization treatment of remitted psychotic depression: the STOP-PD study. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2018 Sep;138(3):267-273. doi: 10.1111/acps.12937. Epub 2018 Jun 29.
• Bingham KS, Rothschild AJ, Mulsant BH, Whyte EM, Meyers BS, Banerjee S, Szanto K, Flint AJ; STOP-PD Study Group. The Association of Baseline Suicidality With Treatment Outcome in Psychotic Depression. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017 Sep/Oct;78(8):1149-1154. doi: 10.4088/JCP.16m10881.
• Gerretsen P, Flint AJ, Whyte EM, Rothschild AJ, Meyers BS, Mulsant BH. Impaired insight into delusions predicts treatment outcome during a randomized controlled trial for Psychotic Depression (STOP-PD study). J Clin Psychiatry. 2015 Apr;76(4):427-33. doi: 10.4088/JCP.14m09003.
• Deligiannidis KM, Rothschild AJ, Barton BA, Kroll-Desrosiers AR, Meyers BS, Flint AJ, Whyte EM, Mulsant BH; STOP-PD Study Group. A gender analysis of the study of pharmacotherapy of psychotic depression (STOP-PD): gender and age as predictors of response and treatment-associated changes in body mass index and metabolic measures. J Clin Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;74(10):1003-9. doi: 10.4088/JCP.13m08400.
• Ostergaard SD, Meyers BS, Flint AJ, Mulsant BH, Whyte EM, Ulbricht CM, Bech P, Rothschild AJ; STOP-PD Study Group. Measuring psychotic depression. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2014 Mar;129(3):211-20. doi: 10.1111/acps.12165. Epub 2013 Jun 25.
• Flint AJ, Iaboni A, Mulsant BH, Rothschild AJ, Whyte EM, Meyers BS; STOP-PD Study Group. Effect of sertraline on risk of falling in older adults with psychotic depression on olanzapine: results of a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Apr;22(4):332-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.067. Epub 2013 May 2.
• Blumberger DM, Mulsant BH, Kanellopoulos D, Whyte EM, Rothschild AJ, Flint AJ, Meyers BS. The incidence of tardive dyskinesia in the study of pharmacotherapy for psychotic depression. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2013 Jun;33(3):391-7. doi: 10.1097/JCP.0b013e31828bf059.
• Weissman J, Flint A, Meyers B, Ghosh S, Mulsant B, Rothschild A, Whyte E; STOP-PD Study Group. Factors associated with non-completion in a double-blind randomized controlled trial of olanzapine plus sertraline versus olanzapine plus placebo for psychotic depression. Psychiatry Res. 2012 May 30;197(3):221-6. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.02.015. Epub 2012 Mar 31.
• Meyers BS, Flint AJ, Rothschild AJ, Mulsant BH, Whyte EM, Peasley-Miklus C, Papademetriou E, Leon AC, Heo M; STOP-PD Group. A double-blind randomized controlled trial of olanzapine plus sertraline vs olanzapine plus placebo for psychotic depression: the study of pharmacotherapy of psychotic depression (STOP-PD). Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009 Aug;66(8):838-47. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.79.
• Schaffer A, Flint AJ, Smith E, Rothschild AJ, Mulsant BH, Szanto K, Peasley-Miklus C, Heo M, Papademetriou E, Meyers BS. Correlates of suicidality among patients with psychotic depression. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2008 Aug;38(4):403-14. doi: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.4.403.
• Smith E, Rothschild AJ, Heo M, Peasley-Miklus C, Caswell M, Papademetriou E, Flint AJ, Mulsant BH, Meyers BS; STOP-PD Collaborative Study Group. Weight gain during olanzapine treatment for psychotic depression: effects of dose and age. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008 May;23(3):130-7. doi: 10.1097/YIC.0b013e3282f424d6.
• Rothschild AJ, Winer J, Flint AJ, Mulsant BH, Whyte EM, Heo M, Fratoni S, Gabriele M, Kasapinovic S, Meyers BS; Study of Pharmacotherapy of Psychotic Depression (STOP-PD) Collaborative Study Group. Missed diagnosis of psychotic depression at 4 academic medical centers. J Clin Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;69(8):1293-6. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v69n0813.
• Andreescu C, Mulsant BH, Peasley-Miklus C, Rothschild AJ, Flint AJ, Heo M, Caswell M, Whyte EM, Meyers BS; STOP-PD Study Group. Persisting low use of antipsychotics in the treatment of major depressive disorder with psychotic features. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;68(2):194-200. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v68n0203.

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