Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Mindfulness meditation as good as antidepressants for preventing depression relapse

A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – using meditation – provides equivalent protection against depressive relapse as traditional antidepressant medication.

The study published in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry compared the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) by studying people who were initially treated with an antidepressant

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