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  2. Switching Antidepressants: Safety, Side Effects & Other ... - AOL

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    Cross-tapering. To cross-taper, you’ll need to gradually reduce the dosage of your old antidepressant while gradually increasing the dosage of your new medication at the same time. This ...

  3. Is It Time to Switch from Zoloft to Prozac? How to Tell

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    Cross-tapering is another technique where you gradually decrease the dosage of your current medication while simultaneously increasing the dosage of your new medication. Switching antidepressants ...

  4. List of antidepressants - Wikipedia

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    This is a complete list of clinically approved prescription antidepressants throughout the world, as well as clinically approved prescription drugs used to augment antidepressants or mood stabilizers, by pharmacological and/or structural classification.

  5. Tapering (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Along with sharing tapering tips, members of the groups discuss the risks of prescription cascade, where withdrawal symptoms or the side effects of a psychotropic medication result in further medication, and the risk of neurobiological "kindling" effects where repeated unsuccessful withdrawal attempts yield progressively poor results upon drug ...

  6. Serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor - Wikipedia

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    Serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitors (SARIs) are a class of drugs used mainly as antidepressants, but also as anxiolytics and hypnotics. They act by antagonizing serotonin receptors such as 5-HT 2A and inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and/or dopamine. Additionally, most also antagonize α 1-adrenergic receptors.

  7. Noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant

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    Noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressants (NaSSAs) are a class of psychiatric drugs used primarily as antidepressants. [1] They act by antagonizing the α 2 -adrenergic receptor and certain serotonin receptors such as 5-HT 2A and 5-HT 2C , [ 1 ] but also 5-HT 3 , [ 1 ] 5-HT 6 , and/or 5-HT 7 in some cases.

  8. Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Antidepressants, including SSRIs, can cross the placenta and have the potential to affect the fetus and newborn, including an increased chance of miscarriage, presenting a dilemma for pregnant women to decide whether to continue to take antidepressants at all, or if they do, considering if tapering and discontinuing during pregnancy could have ...

  9. Mysterious 'Brain Zaps' Are Being Reported By Lexapro ... - AOL

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    Symptoms are most likely to occur when you stop taking an antidepressant cold turkey (which, by the way, isn’t advised)—or in cases where you’re in the process of tapering off. Discontinuing ...