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...

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...

The manufacturers of Prozac and other antidepressants should include prescribing information about an uncommon but life-threatening lung problem that affects babies born to mothers who take the drugs during pregnancy, health officials said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration said...

Antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal behavior for people up to age 24, the government said Wednesday. It plans new warning labels and says users of all ages should be closely monitored.The label change proposed Wednesday would expand a warning now on the antidepressants that...