Subhdeep Virk, MBBS: Emerging Therapies for Treatment Resistant Depression

Solving treatment-resistant depression has proven costly and challenging.

With many patients not responding to first, second, or third options of antidepressants, it is crucial to overcome this resistance barrier.

However, new treatments may soon emerge that has clinicians and investigators hopeful they will soon be able to overcome this long-standing challenge.

In an interview with HCPLive®, Subhdeep Virk, MBBS, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Treatment Resistant Depression Program at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Department of Psychiatry, talked about the emergence of new therapies for depression and how there is hope on the horizon in treating this patient population

Virk will be chairing a discussion on treatment-resistant depression on March 3 as part of HCPLive’s State of the Science program called Institutional Perspectives in Psychiatry: Addressing Challenges in Depression Treatment.

The discussion will look at newer treatment options and why there is a need for novel, evidence-based treatments for depression.

“There are a lot of newer treatments for depression,” Virk said. “What my focus will be on is ketamine and esketamine. Those are the 2 treatments that have been more recently added to the group of treatments for treatment-resistant depression.”