Editorial: Not the Same as Adults: Vortioxetine in Adolescents With Major Depression

Abstract

In this issue, readers can review a multisite, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial (DBRCT) of vortioxetine for adolescent major depression (AMD) by Findling et al.¹ The investigators deserve credit for this industry-sponsored study's several innovations: initial treatment following current guidelines, efforts to reduce placebo response rates (PRRs), and creation of both placebo- and active-control arms. The Journal deserves our respect for its commitment to highlighting these innovations, despite the trial's negative result. It is essential to perform treatment studies in adolescents, and this study underscores the fallacy of presuming that drugs showing efficacy in adults will be as effective in our patients.