Rhodiola and Improved Depressive Symptoms

• Efficacy of Pharmacological Interventions in Milder Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-02-27
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,049
  • Neuropsychopharmacology reports 45(1)
  • • Minoru Urata
    • Hitoshi Sakurai
    • Fumihiko Ueno
    • Taku Maruki
    • Teruo Tada
    • Takahito Uchida
    • Yasuyuki Matsumoto
    • Masami Murao
    • Masayuki Tomita
    • Hajime Baba
    • Masaki Kato
    • Takashi Tsuboi
    • Koichiro Watanabe

  • PubMed: 40014460
  • DOI: 10.1002/npr2.70008

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Depressive Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Eicosapentaenoic acid and Rhodiola rosea demonstrated significant improvements in depressive symptoms compared to placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes