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Sertraline used for the treatment of depression in elderly (older than 60) patients is superior to placebo and comparable to another SSRI fluoxetine, and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) amitriptyline, nortriptyline and imipramine. Sertraline has much lower rates of adverse effects than these TCAs, with the exception of nausea, which occurs ...
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.
Paxil – an antidepressant of the SSRI class; Nardil – an antidepressant of the MAOI class used to treat depression; Orap – a typical antipsychotic used to treat tic disorder; Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) – an antidepressant of the SNRI class; Prolixin (fluphenazine) – typical antipsychotic
A 2012 review focused on antidepressants and sleep found that mirtazapine reduced the time it took to fall asleep and improved the quality of sleep in many people with sleep disorders caused by depression, but that it could also disturb sleep in many people, especially at higher doses, causing restless leg syndrome in 8 to 28% of people and in ...
Meta-analyses of published and unpublished trials have found that antidepressants have a placebo-subtracted effect size (standardized mean difference or SMD) in the treatment of anxiety disorders of around 0.3, which equates to a small improvement and is roughly the same magnitude of benefit as their effectiveness in the treatment of depression ...
Antidepressants are a common group of medications that help treat several mental health conditions. Doctors need to consider potential side effects when prescribing specific antidepressants.
The TCAs are used primarily in the clinical treatment of mood disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD), dysthymia, and treatment-resistant variants. They are also used in the treatment of a number of other medical disorders, including cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) and anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobia (SP) also known as social anxiety ...
Like other medications for the treatment of (ED), Cialis — and its generic version, tadalafil — can cause adverse effects at first. Fortunately, most tadalafil side effects are mild and ...