antidepressants

Quarter Of Spanish Women Take Antidepressants

harminka — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:54:51 -0500

Psychopharmaceutical use has risen over recent years. This is fact, but what is not clear is the reason why. Researchers from four Madrid-based health centres have shown that family conflict is not a significant factor. However, the results published in the journal Atención Primaria are striking: in Spain, 24% of women take antidepressants and more than 30% take tranquillisers.

Antidepressants With Electroconvulsive Therapy To Treat Severe Depression

harminka — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:22:06 -0500

Combining antidepressant drugs with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) does a better job of reducing symptoms of severe depression and causes less memory loss than using ECT alone, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.

Antidepressant No More Effective Than Placebo For Autistic Children

Margaret Wilde — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:27:08 -0500

A government-funded study involving 149 participants aged 5 to 17 finds that the antidepressant, Citalopram, is no more effective than a placebo and has side-effects twice as bad. About a third of autistic children in the US take this drug or others closely related to it.

Environmental factors trump genetics in facial aging

harminka — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:56:31 -0600

Your mother's wrinkles — or lack there of, may not be the best predictor of how you'll age. In fact, a new study claims just the opposite.

Anxious older adults may benefit from antidepressants

harminka — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:51:25 -0600

Many older adults worry — a lot. Almost one in 10 Americans over age 60 suffer from an anxiety disorder that causes them to worry excessively about normal things — like health, finances, disability and family.

Antidepressants use associated with fibromyalgia symptoms improvement

harminka — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:36:51 -0600

The use of antidepressant medications by patients with fibromyalgia syndrome is associated with a reduction in pain, sleep disturbances and depressed mood and improvement of health-related quality of life, according to an analysis of previous studies, which is published in the January 14 issue of JAMA.

Association between two antidepressants and heart anomalies

harminka — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:44:14 -0600

Women who took the antidepressant fluoxetine during the first three months of pregnancy gave birth to four times as many babies with heart problems as women who did not and the levels were three times higher in women taking paroxetine.

Millisecond brain signals predict response to fast-acting antidepressant

harminka — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:56:45 -0500

Images of the brain's fastest signals reveal an electromagnetic marker that predicts a patient's response to a fast-acting antidepressant, researchers have discovered.

Antidepressants in suicide prevention

harminka — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:49:37 -0500

Antidepressants are the cornerstone of treatment of depressive disorders in health care. Their efficacy in treating depression is undisputable, although it leaves room for improvement.

Antidepressants need new nerve cells to be effective

harminka — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:37:12 -0500

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in mice that the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like behavior.

Potential new targets for antidepressant medications

harminka — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:24:34 -0500

The news about antidepressant medications over the past several years has been mixed. The bad news from large multicenter studies such as STAR*D is that current antidepressant medications are effective, but not as effective as one might hope.

Antidepressant Use Tied to Poorer Driving

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:09:22 -0500

Doctros aren not sure if the pills, or underlying depression, are to blame for the link between antidepressant use and poor driving.