Antidepressant

Biological Treatments for Depression Antidepressants are a type of medication that is used to treat people with the symptoms of depression. There are 30 different types of antidepressants available to give patients depending on their severity of depression. The aim of antidepressants is to increase the levels of the neurotransmitter which are chemicals, they are produced in the brain. The antidepressants targets and increases the levels of three types of neurotransmitters; (A neurotransmitter is

Annotated Bibliography The goal of this paper is to examine whether and how antidepressants are associated suicide risk in adolescents. 1. Cheung K, Aarts N, Noordam R, et al. Antidepressant use and the risk of suicide: A population-based cohort study. J Affect Disord. 2015;174:479-484. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.12.032 [doi]. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between antidepressants and risk of suicide during first few weeks of beginning treatment. Using the data from

Background: There is an ongoing debate as to whether placebo trials have reliable efficacy against antidepressants. As a mental health nurse there is a need to understand the effects of medication and to be an effective advocate for patients who have depression. Aims: This review focuses on adults diagnosed with mild to severe depression and whether antidepressants compared to placebo lead to reduced symptoms of depression. The aim of this review is to inform practice as a mental health nurse and

One in ten Americans are prescribed an antidepressant that they are told to take daily. Ronald Elson, a psychiatrist at the University of California stated that the use of antidepressants have increased 400% since the 1980s (Lancet, 2004). So what are antidepressants? Antidepressants are a class of drugs to diminish symptoms of depressive disorders, and other conditions such as: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), bulimia

The research critically analyses the desired effects of the depression and the antidepressants available for the depressions. Depression symptoms are commonly seen among people of various ages. There are some of the antidepressants that are initially recommended for overcoming the issues of depression. Some of the well-known methods have been used by many of the known researchers regarding the topic of depression. Proper evaluation of the research methodology about depressions will help in the better

People who experience depression can often find relief in taking antidepressants. An antidepressant affects the way the brain passes neurotransmitters, which include, serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, to the different nerve cells in the brain. A study published in Current Biology found that antidepressants change the way the brain cells communicate with one another in as little as a day. It's common, however, for it to take weeks before patients notice a difference in their depression symptoms

sensitivity to rejection. Treatments for this include psychotherapy and antidepressant medications. The common denominator in the treatment of all of these conditions is antidepressant medications. The first classification of drugs that doctors usually use are SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. The way they work is not completely known, but it is thought that they limit the reabsorption of serotonin into the presynaptic cell which increases the extracellular level of the serotonin

believer in the idea that you should avoid taking unecessary medication. Lots of people I know have said that me saying that is hypocritical because I take antidepressants, but I disagree. While it is not completely necessary for me to take antidepressants to overcome my depression and anxiety, they make a big impact on my life. Antidepressants have allowed me to be a functional human being and because of this, I have been able to redevelop daily

Antidepressants are overprescribed Mitrea (2007) defines antidepressants as an agent or a drug that is most commonly used to prevent or treat depression. However, in today’s society it could be said that antidepressants are being over prescribed and are being used to treat a vast range of other conditions, as well as clinical depression. When the first antidepressant was developed, manufacturers were reluctant to put it on the market due to the extremely low number of people suffering from depression

There has been evidence that links antidepressants to the causes of violent outbursts in individuals. This led to my decision in doing my ORT on whether antidepressants have more of a negative effect on the human body rather than the positive effects they are expected to have. This investigation will be carried out by sending various surveys to psychiatrics. These are doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses such as depression. Another survey will be sent to individuals