Highlights
- • About 50% of MDD patients treated with SSRIs or SNRIs suffer emotional blunting
- • Emotional blunting has important functional consequences for patients’ daily life
- • In this study vortioxetine was effective for treating emotional blunting
- • Improvement in emotional blunting correlated with improved overall functioning
- • Improved emotional blunting also correlated with greater motivation and energy
Andrea Fagiolini, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 283, 15 March 2021, Pages 472-479, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.106