ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed medical journal and the official publication of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, covering the diagnosis, epidemiology, and treatment of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders. Its research includes clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other studies on conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, addiction, and posttraumatic stress disorder, with an emphasis on evidence relevant to clinical psychiatric practice.
A trial adding the drug lumateperone to a faltering antidepressant improved patients’ sexual function, but most of that improvement traced back to eased depression symptoms rather than any direct effect on desire, arousal or orgasm.