Antidepressant

becoming an issue. Antidepressants should help you cope with your depression, not make you want to end your life. Most antidepressants do not have the right kinds of effects on the prescription buyers. They have serious risks and side effects but the users feel no different, if anything they feel worse. A risk on the medication is the increase of suicidal thoughts. I have personally experienced the risk of increased suicidal thoughts. In my personal experience antidepressants are ineffective and

to antidepressants and suicide. However, there is also evidence that the suicide rate could be decreased with proper diagnosis and early, supervised treatment for depression, especially when dealing with

look for the new, safe antidepressant strategies (1, 2) with rapid onset and longer time of action. Results obtained in the recent years give some hope that ketamine which is a global NMDAR antagonist could be the fast and long- acting novel antidepressant. Antidepressant–like activity of ketamine was shown in many preclinical studies (1–7). The single non-anesthetic dose of ketamine reversed symptoms of major depression (MDD) in clinical conditions (8). These antidepressant effects of ketamine also

Zoloft) is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Sertraline affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Zoloft is among the most commonly prescribed antidepressant medications. It is used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, PMDD, and PTSD. The history of this drug starts with tametraline. Tametraline is the parent of a series of chemical compounds investigated

clinical depression vary depending on the specific patient being treated. Some may experience an array of antidepressants, or drugs that regulate the neurotransmitters (noradrenaline and serotonin) discussed earlier. Most antidepressants are taken for several months, or years, and have to be strictly regulated to promote the healthiest and most reliable treatment option. Although antidepressants must be taken for long periods of times, unlike other drugs the dosage does not need to be raised in order

from depression looking for a treatment to alleviate feelings of negative affect will most likely be prescribed some sort of antidepressant drug. During the past 15 years, a plethora of antidepressant drugs has entered the marketplace all claiming to be the cure-all for your biochemical dysfunction (Benkert, O., Szegedi, A, Muller, M. J., 2002). However, many antidepressants can cause severe side effects both physically and mentally. Tensions between the research literature, pharmaceutical treatment

work and the rate of which antidepressents are effective. Depression effects one in every six americans at some point during life. The National Center for Health Statistics estimates more than one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 took antidepressants between 2005 and 2008, and the rate of

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According to Cunha, (2010) article Huntingtons Disease, there is no treatment to stop Huntington’s disease. The physicians may prescribe a lot of medication to control the emotional and movement problems. The U.S Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine in August 2008 to treat the HD making it the first drug approved in U.S to treat the disease. To help reducing the choreic movements and help to control hallucinations, delusions and violent outburst, use Antipsychotic drugs such as haloperidol

The hippocampus is smaller in patients with depression. The smaller hippocampus is thought to be diminished because of a persistent exposure to stress hormones, like cortisol, which impacts the growth of nerve cells. The hippocampus is highly susceptible to stress, perhaps because the protracted ontogeny or the high amount of glucocorticoid receptors (Uma Rao et al.; 2010). The longer the patient has depression, or the more episodes of depression the patient experiences, the smaller the hippocampal