PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Fragoso, Yara Dadalti AU - Adoni, Tarso AU - Anacleto, Andrea AU - da Gama, Paulo Diniz AU - Goncalves, Marcus Vinicus Magno AU - Matta, Andre Palma da Cunha AU - Parolin, Monica Fiuza Koncke TI - Recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of depression in patients with multiple sclerosis AID - 10.1136/practneurol-2013-000735 DP - 2014 Aug 01 TA - Practical Neurology PG - 206--209 VI - 14 IP - 4 4099 - http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/206.short 4100 - http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/206.full SO - Pract Neurol2014 Aug 01; 14 AB - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is frequently associated with depression. Yet there are few clinical trials on treating depression in MS and no agreed recommendations for its assessment and follow-up. We present evidence-based recommendations for several aspects of depression in MS, including screening for depression, recognition of other concomitant psychiatric conditions, suicide risk, disability, fatigue, cognition, adherence to treatment, the effect of drugs used to treat MS on depression and possible pharmacological treatments for depression in MS.