Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One hypothesis is that after the antidepressant is discontinued, there is a temporary (but in some cases long-lasting) deficiency in the brain of one or more essential neurotransmitters that regulate mood, such as serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid, and since neurotransmitters are an interrelated system ...
Paroxetine, sold under the brand name Paxil among others, is an antidepressant medication of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class [7] used to treat major depressive disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder, and ...
Serotonin reuptake inhibitors should not be abruptly discontinued after extended therapy, and whenever possible, should be tapered over several weeks to minimize discontinuation-related symptoms which may include nausea, headache, dizziness, chills, body aches, paresthesias, insomnia, and brain zaps. Paroxetine may produce discontinuation ...
Hypomania, [7] [unreliable medical source] [8] [9] [unreliable medical source] may occur in as many as 8% of patients being treated with paroxetine. May be more common in those with bipolar disorder. Asthenia; Weight gain or loss. Usually gain, paroxetine tends to produce more weight gain than other SSRIs. [6]: 58 Confusion; Emotional lability ...
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.
As demonstrated in table 2, paroxetine also inhibits the NOSs enzyme which could be the reason for its sexual dysfunction adverse effect, especially in men. [18] Paroxetine shows the highest affinity for muscarinic receptors of all the SSRIs which results in weak anticholinergic activity and therefore undesirable adverse effects.
The Paroxetine developed at that time was paroxetine anhydrate, which is a chalky powder that was hygroscopic. This made it difficult to handle. In late 1984, while scaling up the production of Paroxetine, a new crystal form (hemihydrate) suddenly appeared at two Beecham sites in the UK within a few weeks of each other. In the presence of water ...
Over two million prescriptions for paroxetine were written for children or adolescents in the US in 2002. [29]Funded by SmithKline Beecham, the acute phase of study 329 was an eight-week, double-blind, randomized clinical trial conducted in 12 university or hospital psychiatric departments in the United States and Canada between 1994 and 1997.