Consenting Veterans with the diagnosis of PTSD who have not fully remitted to an adequate trial of standard antidepressant treatment (sertraline, citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, venlafaxine, or mirtazapine) are treated with the addition of open-label asenapine for 12-weeks.
This is an open-label pilot study of adjunctive asenapine for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans who have not fully remitted to an adequate trial of standard antidepressant treatment.