Trading Plates for Pillows: Sertraline

A study just published in the American Journal of Psychiatry indicates that sertraline is efficacious for the treatment of night eating syndrome. Outpatients were assigned to receive sertraline or placebo for 8 weeks. 71% of the sertraline group demonstrated significant improvement in primary outcome measures, and there were also notable improvements in night-eating symptoms, quality of life, frequency of nocturnal ingestion, waking, and calories ingested following the evening meal. In addition, overweight probands in the sertraline group lost significantly more weight than those in the placebo group. Sertraline was well-tolerated by the study group. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/163/5/893