OFFICIAL NAMES: Amitriptyline (Elavil), amoxapine (Asendin), bupropion (Wellbutrin), citalopram (Celexa), clomipramine (Anafranil), desipramine (Norpramin), doxepin (Sinequan), fluoxetine (Prozac), imipramine (Norfranil, Tofranil), isocarboxazid...

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....

Any drug used to treat depression. The three main types inhibit the metabolism of serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain. The aim is to keep these monoamine neurotransmitters from dropping to levels associated with depression. The drugs may take a...

A drug, such as imipramine and tranylcypromine, that relieves depression by increasing central sympathetic...

An alpha 2 noradrenaline receptor AGONIST (see...

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...