Antidepressant

appetite, inability to concentrate, and insomnia or excessive sleeping. This paper will examine the pro, con and my viewpoint on should antidepressant drugs be subscribed for children suffering from depression? To begin with, the pro viewpoint in antidepressant drugs can improve their quality of life. For example, numbers show an upswing in suicide attempts as antidepressant use fell 20%. Christine Y. Lu,…

who wants to know more about antidepressants. It discusses the how they work, why they are prescribed, their effects and their side effects and alternative treatments. If your questions are not answered in this brochure, I include references and other sources of information at the end of this research. At points where there is disagreement, we reference to other publications that allow you to explore these issues. These points include the effectiveness of antidepressants, problems that occur…

During the antidepressant treatment phase, we found 1) the OSA group performed significantly worse on the SRT delayed recall at week 16 compared to the non-OSA group, and the results remained significant after controlling for baseline performance, age, gender, and education; 2) the OSA group had a greater microvascular burden, including DWMHs, PVHs, and SCGs, as well as grade 2 and 3 lesions in DWM, PVH, and SCG, 3) between groups, the differences in the hippocampal and entorhinal cortex volumes…

“The Medicated Americans” is about America’s antidepressant use and how most of the time the terms “depression” and “Depression” can lead to incorrect prescriptions of these antidepressants. The author Charles Barber goes into detail on the numerous amount of misdiagnoses for depression due to the misunderstanding of the word. Like depression, most other disorders are not being treated correctly and a majority of the people who are being treated are not receiving the full benefits they need. 43…

Overview of the Monoaminergic Antidepressants A brief summary of the specific types of monoaminergic antidepressants will follow as it is important to note previous treatments of depression. Tricyclic antidepressants manipulate serotonin, and norepinephrine pathways through reuptake inhibition. These antidepressants are characterized by low levels of tolerability, and are rarely prescribed. Monoamine oxidase a inhibitors (MAOIs) increase synaptic monoamine availability. The issues of MAOIs…

from advancing technology, antidepressants have become increasingly helpful in treating the symptoms of depression. Antidepressant medications are an effective way to combat depression and are worth the risk of their side effects. Commonly described as an imbalance of hormones in the body, depression is a serious affliction. Typically, the chemicals serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are the neurotransmitters…

1. Antidepressants can be a good way to treat people if other options are ruled out. However, I would first try to see if other options would work on a depressed client before using antidepressants. Also, it is proven that people on the placebo are more likely to relapse into depression compared to people on antidepressants and therefore antidepressants can be a good way to medicate clients. On the other side, due to the fact that it is proven that antidepressants are not very affective when it…

depression this year alone” (Duckworth). Some people can not get through the sadness alone; they need help from a medication. The reason these antidepressants are needed is due to a chemical imbalance of the brain. Antidepressants can alter the chemical balance of the brain and have many negative side effects when taking one. The main reason that antidepressants are used is because of the chemicals in the brain (Hauser). These chemicals are called serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine…

Depression is a brain disorder which generate major disability. Its etiology and molecular mechanism is not fully understood. It is a leading cause of disability globally, with lifetime prevalence as high as 20% (Kessler et al., 2005). Depression is multifactorial disorders that differ in symptomology and most possibly in etiology. There are various symptoms of depression include depressed mood, mood swing, loss of pleasure activities (anhedonia), inability to concentrate, lack of energy,…

5HT1A) (Deckersbach, 2015). The highest affinity for an antagonistic effect lurasidone contains is a distinctive trait and works on the 5HT7 which presents an interesting array of noted therapeutic possibilities. Not only is lurasidone an effective antidepressant and antipsychotic, it also possibly possesses low levels of cognitive enhancing properties (Stahl, 2013). Another advantage of lurasidone is its low histamine and acetylcholine affinities which lessens adverse effects such as weight…