antidepressant

Antidepressant prescribing in five European countries: application of common definitions to assess the prevalence, clinical observations, and methodological implications.

Apparently depression ran in this man's family, and when he took an overdose of his tricyclic antidepressant, he also took the tricyclics of his mother and his sister.

Outpatient pharmacy claims were searched for antidepressant medications using national drug codes to determine whether women filled an antidepressant prescription during a given calendar year, regardless of the indication for use.

Safe-to-use adjunctive antidepressants can be considered if the patient relapses to a depressive episode after antidepressant therapy is stopped.

One option for dealing with this problem is to administer multiple antidepressants with different mechanisms of action (i.e., 'antidepressant polypharmacy') to simultaneously address the different types of symptoms experienced by the patient and, thus, optimize the treatment effect.

"EMOTIONAL NUMBNESS." How ever, new research suggests that psychological problems associated with antidepressant use may be more common than previously thought.

Countless studies in the past have shown adverse outcomes associated with antidepressant use in pregnancy, including the risk of cardiac problems, autism or low birth weight in babies.

Researchers were particularly interested in potential risks associated with a kind of SSRI antidepressant called citalopram, as it has been the subject of recent warnings by European and US drug regulators.

Bupropion produces its antidepressant effects by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine.

Initially, your physician may prescribe an anti-anxiety medication, such as alprazolam (Xanax) or lorazepam (Ativan), along with your antidepressant. If your response to treatment stalls, your physician may add a medication such as aripiprazole (Abilify) or quetiapine (Seroquel) to augment the antidepressant effects.

HIV providers may not notice depression in their patients because patients don't think about calling attention to "sadness" or "the blues." But depression is a disease that can be treated effectively with antidepressant drugs, with counseling (psychotherapy), or with both.

When the results were adjusted to make them fair, the dementia risk of people in the antidepressant group was 3.4 times higher.