News tagged with antidepressant medication
Restoring emotional memory in a rat model of major depressive disorder
Deficits in emotional memory processing associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) are shown to be reversible by distinct antidepressants, shows researchers at Karolinska Institutet in an animal study.
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Jan 18, 2011 |
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Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression
Neuroscientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have developed a protein peptide that may be a novel type of highly targeted treatment for depression with a low side-effect profile. Depression affects ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Patients and doctors are being misled by published data on medicines
The drug reboxetine is, overall, an ineffective and potentially harmful antidepressant, according to a comprehensive study of the evidence published in the British Medical Journal today.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Antidepressants in pregnancy increase risk of miscarriage
A new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) found a 68% increase in the overall risk of miscarriage in pregnant women using antidepressants.
May 31, 2010 |
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Half of depressed Americans go untreated, study finds
A national survey of 15,762 households by UCLA/Wayne State University researchers found that only 21 percent of Americans suffering from clinical depression receive medical care consistent with American Psychiatric Association ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 04, 2010 |
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More US patients receive multiple psychotropic medications
An increasing number of U.S. adults are being prescribed combinations of antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Most antidepressants miss key target of clinical depression
A key brain protein called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) - is highly elevated during clinical depression yet is unaffected by treatment with commonly used antidepressants, according to an important study published today in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Is it right for drug companies to carry out their own clinical trials?
In BMJ today two experts debate whether the conflict of interest is unacceptable when drug companies carry out clinical trials on their own medicines.
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Study reveals an increase in long-term antidepressant drug use
A dramatic rise in antidepressant prescriptions issued by GPs has been caused by a year on year increase in the number of people taking antidepressant drugs on a long-term basis, according to researchers from the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Antidepressant use increasing in the United States
A marked and broad expansion in antidepressant treatment occurred among Americans older than 6 years between 1996 and 2005, although treatment rates remain low among racial and ethnic minorities, according to a report in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Depressed adolescents not harmed by being part of placebo group in clinical trial, researchers find
In a national clinical trial, adolescents with moderate to severe depression first given a placebo treatment and then an antidepressant medication alone or in combination with therapy responded just as well over the long ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 15, 2009 |
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