Antidepressants are medications that are used to help treat depression. Beidel, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014 state that monoamine oxidase inhibitors, MAOs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs, and Tricyclics are the most common for treatment of depression (p. 226). The first drugs marketed for treatment of depression were the MAOs and Tricyclics. MAOs prevent monoamine oxidase enzymes from removing the neurotransmitters norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine from the brain (Beidel, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014, p. 226). Tricyclics impacts neurotransmitters used to communicate between brain cells. These work by preventing the reuptake of several neurotransmitters, primarily norepinephrine and serotonin, in the brain. SSRIs are used to increase
