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A large percentage of patients don't respond to standard antidepressant therapies, so it's important to find therapies that help these patients, according Charles R. Conway, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Washington University. The rapid improvements in many study patients suggests nitrous oxide may help people with treatment-resistant depression.

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