Antidepressants News
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Research into the U.S. Great Lakes has uncovered levels of antidepressants not only in the water but also in the brains of fish. This signals the polluting effect of wastewater and sewage treatment facilities.
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One concern is that mothers who take antidepressants while pregnant go on to have children who develop autism. A new scientific study disproves this.
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Helsinki -
A new molecule has proved promising in laboratory test in relation to antidepressant therapy. This relates to a better understanding as to how the brain regulates depression and anxiety.
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Canadian researchers released results of a study on taking antidepressants during pregnancy and it raises concerns. They found woman have a far higher chance of having a child who will be diagnosed as autistic if they take antidepressants while pregnant.
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A new study demonstrates how antidepressants administered to people suffering with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder led to continuing depression and mood cycling.
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One consequence of the wider use of antidepressants in society is the effect on being able to conceive a child. The fertility effect has been revealed in new research.
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Sydney -
Peter Gøtzsche, professor and director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark, says that most psychiatric drugs are harmful or of little benefit. His views are opposed by many other experts.
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A new study shows that 69% of people taking antidepressants don't fit the criteria for clinical depression or major depressive disorder (MDD). Research suggests that, instead, they're suffering normal sadness and hardships, which are just part of life.
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Denver -
What Richard Nixon wouldn’t have given for an outcome like this? Record numbers of voters stayed home, and the silent becomes the loud-mouthed majority.
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Researchers have found a tiny molecule (miR-1202) that may provide a marker for major depression. The molecule may also help scientist find better treatments to fight depression.
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A pharmacist found that a bottle of antidepressant Effexor XR contained one capsule of Tikosyn 0.25 milligram (dofetilide), which is used to treat heart rhythm disorders.
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Christine Adewunmi, a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom and a former physical education teacher from Missouri, was struggling with bipolar disorder, depression, including researching suicide methods online.
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A long-established antidepressant, called sertraline, is being trialled in Uganda as a fungal brain disease treatment drug.
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A widely used antidepressant drug called TCP has, according to new research, the potential to treat sickle cell disease.
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Scientists have been looking at a new wave of antidepressant medicines that, by focusing on the appropriate target in the brain, may work faster than medications currently available.
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Some types of antidepressants have been linked with an elevated risk of certain heart conditions developing, according to a new study.
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A scientific team based at Yale University have identified a natural anti-depressant. The substance, called neuritin, is found in the brain and it has a role in nerve transmission.
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The popular belief that we’re “overdosed and overmedicated” is not rooted in reality but rather in a blatant prejudice against the mentally ill.
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In a new report, Canadian researchers suggest antidepressants may be doing more harm than good. In the study, researchers examined previous patient studies and the impact of medications on the body.
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Dallas -
A new study shows that women who have a history of depression and are taking antidepressant SSRIs like Prozac, Zoloft or Celexa face a 39% greater risk of having a stroke.
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With depression rates growing continuously every year, two reports recently published in IONS may offer more insight and help.
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Copenhagen -
Research in Denmark has produced alarming findings regarding major psychotropic drugs, whose side effects may include birth defects and withdrawals.
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In a recent study, the antidepressant, paroxitine (Paxil), was found to nullify the benefits of the breast cancer drug, Tamoxifen. Other antidepressants found to have no effect on Tamoxifen in the study may be suspect anyway, lead researcher says.
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Researchers have concluded that a key brain protein increases during depression but is completely unaffected by antidepressants.
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Treatment with antidepressant medication might cause real personality changes, alleviating depressive symptoms by decreasing neuroticism and increasing extroversion, according to researchers at Northwestern University.
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A Northwestern University study suggests that antidepressant medications are often ineffective because they target depression's effects instead of its root causes.
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Depression is a common occurrence, especially in an economic climate such as the current one. However, antidepressant usage has gone up significantly in more than a decade.
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The effects of protracted warfare have been generating some protracted arguments about mental health care. While the issues are fundamentally stress and combat-related, both the public and the troops’ expectations for care and treatment have risen.
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There are chances you might actually be shipped a a schizophrenia drug - haloperidol, if you purchase certain anti-depressants from various Web sites; FDA offcials warned Friday
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