The goal of treatment of major depression should be full remission. Many patients, however,
fail to achieve or maintain symptom-free status. Residual depressive symptoms are …

Epidemiologic and clinical data support the goal of treating depressed patients to wellness
or full remission. Many patients improve but fail to achieve full remission with antidepressant …

Over the last several years, the recommended end point in the treatment of depression has
become remission. Patients who achieve remission not only enjoy the benefits of decreased …

Unipolar depression should be viewed as a chronic illness with multiple phases rather than
as a relapsing-remitting disorder. Incomplete remission from depression is common, with …

Although antidepressants are effective, no more than one third of the depressed patients
who begin treatment achieve full remission within 8 weeks of therapy. Remission, defined as …

Background. There is increasing literature on the unsatisfactory degree of remission that
current therapeutic strategies yield in unipolar depression. The aims of this review were to …

Background: Although residual symptoms after remission from depression are common and
predict early relapse, little is known about the impact of residual symptoms on longer-term …

Depression is one of the most pressing public health issues, because of its high lifetime
prevalence and because it is associated with substantial disability. In depressed patients …

OBJECTIVE: Although experts in the treatment of depression have suggested that achieving
remission is the primary goal of treatment, questions remain about how remission should be …

OBJECTIVE: In treatment studies of depression remission is defined according to scores on
symptom severity scales. Normalization of functioning has often been mentioned as an …