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BMC Psychiatry2025;25(1):1195.November 27, 2025Journal Article

Real-world evaluation of change in depressive symptoms among patients with treatment-resistant depression treated with esketamine.

Carl D Marci1,2, Kruti Joshi3, Stevan Geoffrey Severtson4, Janis L Breeze4, Manish K Jha5
1OM1, Inc., Boston, MA, USA. cmarci@om1.com.
2Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. cmarci@om1.com.
3Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Titusville, NJ, USA.
4OM1, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
5UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is often characterized by inadequate response to ≥ 2 oral antidepressant treatments of adequate dose and duration during a major depressive episode (MDE). Esketamine nasal spray (ESK) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2019 for TRD in conjunction with an oral antidepressant under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ( https:…

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