A Shortcut to the Right Antidepressant

Dr. Andrew Leuchter, professor of psychiatry in the Semel Institute, was interviewed June 13 on KCET's Life & Times news program on his use of electroencephalography to indicate whether an antidepressant is likely to work for a patient after just one week of treatment. Normally, there is no way to know if a particular medication will be effective except to wait as long as eight weeks.