When they work, antidepressant medications may take weeks or months to alleviate symptoms of depression. Progress in developing new and more effective antidepressant treatments has been limited, ...

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New research is shedding light on how antidepressants taken during pregnancy might affect fetal brain development, potentially increasing the risk of depression and anxiety later in life. As a mother ...

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In a discovery that could guide the development of next-generation antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed new insights ...

Antidepressants must be prescribed by a licensed healthcare provider — a primary care physician (PCP), psychiatrist, or nurse ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nicole Amoyal Pensak, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Andrew Novick ...

Antidepressants are medications used to treat depression and other mood disorders. They help balance chemicals in the brain ...

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing number of commentators claiming that antidepressants don’t work, that pharmaceutical companies lied, and that these drugs are overprescribed ...

Because antidepressants are taken orally, some of the active ingredients may make it to the large intestine, where the majority of microbes live. Medical News Today had spoken to three medical experts ...