antidepressant medications

Antidepressants differ among English and Spanish-speaking Hispanics

harminka — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:41 -0600

In the first-ever study of its kind, a team led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) report in November's Psychiatric Services journal that Spanish-speaking Hispanics took longer to respond to medication for depression and were less likely to go into remission than English-speaking Hispanics.

Treating SSRI-resistant depression

harminka — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:06:27 -0500

When your antidepressant medication does not work, should you switch to a different medication from the same class or should you try an antidepressant medication that has a different mechanism of action? This is the question asked by researchers in a new report scheduled for publication in Biological Psychiatry on April 1st.

Who benefits from antidepressants?

harminka — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:01:39 -0600

A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.

Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming reality

harminka — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:08:58 -0500

A new study has revealed more about how the medication ketamine, when used experimentally for depression, relieves symptoms of the disorder in hours instead of the weeks or months it takes for current antidepressants to work.

Genetic variations may predispose men to suicidal thoughts during depression treatment

harminka — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:05:35 -0500

Genetic variations may help explain why some men with depression develop suicidal thoughts and behaviors after they begin taking antidepressant medications, while most do not, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Antidepressants use associated with risk of fracture in older adults

harminka — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:13:26 -0600