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Beyond antidepressants: There are other treatments

On an antidepressant and still depressed? Techniques new and old may help.

The landmark STAR*D study, published in the November 2006 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, demonstrated that depression is more likely to yield -- and less likely to recur -- when a patient is treated with both an antidepressant and cognitive therapy, a form of talk therapy aimed at correcting negative...

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