This service is led by Professor Farrokh Alemi, Professor Kevin Lybarger and colleagues in the Health Informatics program at George Mason University. We built this website to help people with depression to explore antidepressant options to discuss with their clinician.
We do not provide medical care or prescriptions. We provide research-based treatment recommendations that you should review with your clinician before making any changes to your current medications or starting a new medication.
We do not share your name or contact information unless you ask us to. Your medical history information is encrypted, so if there were an accidental leak, it would not be readable.
All recommendations generated by the system are reviewed by project staff to ensure safety and appropriateness. This review may result in a delay before advice is released to you.
Our advice is based on information from more than 3 million patients and more than 10 million antidepressant treatments. However, we may not find enough patients with a medical history similar to yours. If that happens, we may not be able to provide reliable recommendations for you.
Even if advice is provided, do not change medications based only on this website. Review the results with your clinician first.
This service is free. This project has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Research Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Aim Ahead program of the National Institutes of Health,and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
We can refer you to clinics that may not require payment or that offer reduced-fee services; however, the project does not cover clinical expenses.
No. This service is independent from pharmaceutical companies. We do not accept funding from them, so we can remain independent in our judgment about medications.
Yes. If you already have a clinician, discuss the results with them. If you do not have one, we can suggest participating clinicians near you. You can request a referral in the eligibility page.