Everybody's different — and everyone's depression is different, too. If you and your doctor decide to try antidepressant medications to help treat your depression, you’ll work together to find one ...

What do Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft have in common? All belong to a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and all have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Nearly two decades ago, Columbia researchers who were using mouse models to better understand the role of serotonin in depression got results that left them baffled. The researchers genetically ...

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A single dose of a popular class of psychiatric drug used to treat depression can alter the brain’s architecture within hours, even though most patients usually don’t report improvement for weeks, a ...

A recent issue of Sexual Medicine Reviews includes an extensive field review on post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a medical condition tied to stopping SSRI and SNRI antidepressants that was ...

Depression is a mental illness that can make everyday tasks feel difficult. But health professionals can offer many tools to help keep symptoms at bay. Depression, also referred to as major depressive ...

On Monday, July 21, a 10-member panel headed by Marty Makary, MD, MPH, commissioner of the FDA convened in Silver Spring, Maryland, to discuss the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are one of the most commonly used antidepressants. They are usually chosen as the first-line treatment for clinical depression because of their better ...