Antidepressants are a diverse group of drugs that demonstrate a capacity to produce improvement in the symptoms of clinical depression, and they are used to treat the abnormal mood states that characterize depressive illnesses. The word depression is...

Antidepressants are drugs used to treat depression—and certain other mental disorders such as attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, narcolepsy, anxiety, and panic disorder--caused by chemical imbalances in the brain....

Term usually applied to chemical treatments for DEPRESSION, though also applies to other physical treatments, such as ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT). Chemical antidepressants were first recognized by clinical observation in the late 1950s and early...

Antidepressants are a diverse group of drugs used to treat symptoms of depression. The term "depression" describes several psychiatric disorders in which a person has abnormal moods. Everyone has moods—silly, happy, angry, sad....

An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication or other substance (nutrient or herb) used for alleviating depression or dysthymia ('milder' depression). Drug groups known as MAOIs, tricyclics and SSRIs are particularly associated with the term. These...

Even today, many clinicians mistakenly believe that pregnancy is protective against the development or relapse of depression. That misperception persists despite several studies over the past 6 years demonstrating that women experience episodes of depression and relapse at the same rate during pregnancy...

There is no evidence that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors increase the risk of malformations in babies exposed to these drugs in utero. In 1993 we published a study that did not find an excess of birth defects in the babies of women who...

Young adults face an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior when they first begin taking antidepressants and should be warned about the danger, federal health officials said Wednesday.The Food and Drug Administration asked makers of the drugs to expand its warning labels to include...

Authors of a new comprehensive analysis of antidepressants for children and teenagers say the benefits of treatment trump the small risk of increasing some patients' chances of having suicidal thoughts and behaviors.The risk they found is lower than the one the Food and Drug Administration...