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Key symptoms include excessive anxiety about multiple events and issues, and difficulty controlling worrisome thoughts, that persists for at least 6 months. Antidepressants provide a modest-to-moderate reduction in anxiety in GAD, [25] and are superior to placebo in treating GAD. The efficacy of different antidepressants is similar.
Based on your symptoms, the medication you’re currently using, and your overall health, your healthcare provider will work with you to find an antidepressant that’s safe to switch to ...
The pharmacology of antidepressants is not entirely clear.. The earliest and probably most widely accepted scientific theory of antidepressant action is the monoamine hypothesis (which can be traced back to the 1950s), which states that depression is due to an imbalance (most often a deficiency) of the monoamine neurotransmitters (namely serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine). [1]
Vortioxetine, sold under the brand name Trintellix (in the US) and Brintellix (in the EU) among others, is an antidepressant medication of the serotonin modulator and stimulator (SMS) class used in the treatment of major depressive disorder.
This warning states that antidepressant medications are associated with an increased risk for thoughts of death and/or behavior in children and/or young adults. For many antidepressants, this risk ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class II recall of more than 7,100 bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine due to the possible presence of a carcinogen. Duloxetine belongs to a ...
As an antidepressant, it did well in clinical studies and it is known to work well in even the most severe cases of depression. [76] It is not surprising, therefore, that imipramine may cause a high rate of manic and hypomanic reactions in hospitalized patients with pre-existing bipolar disorder, with one study showing that up to 25% of such ...
Fluvoxamine, sold under the brand name Luvox among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. [8] It is primarily used to treat major depressive disorder and, perhaps more-especially, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), [9] but is also used to treat anxiety disorders [10] such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress ...