Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds antidepressants may help in treating schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a complex and chronic mental disorder affecting more than 2 million people in the United States.
Jun 23, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Treating depression may prevent repeat heart attack
(HealthDay)—It's common for heart attack survivors to develop depression. Now a new trial has found that antidepressant treatment may help those patients avoid a second heart attack.
Jul 24, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety and serotonin transmission
About 15 percent of women in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders and depression during their pregnancies, and many are prescribed antidepressants. However little is known about how early exposure to these medications ...
Dec 19, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Benzodiazepines may decrease mortality in congestive heart failure
A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics indicates that treatment of anxiety with benzodiazepines may improve survival in congestive heart failure. Depression (in various forms and as various ...
Jan 24, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers identify new type of depression
Depression is a mental disorder that affects over 300 million people around the world. While treatments exist, many of them are based on one hypothesis of how depression arises. Patients that do not fit this mold may not ...
Jun 11, 2018
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Neuroscience
New target structure for antidepressants on the horizon?
German scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich have compared the genomes of a total of 4,088 patients and 11,001 healthy control subjects from all over the world and identified a new risk gene variant ...
Apr 27, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Prescriptions for antidepressants increasing among individuals with no psychiatric diagnosis
Americans are no strangers to antidepressants. During the last 20 years the use of antidepressants has grown significantly making them one of the most costly and the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in ...
Aug 5, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Exposure to certain antidepressants in pregnancy may modestly increase risk of autism spectrum disorders
Prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, especially during the first trimester, is associated with a modest increase the risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder, according to a report published ...
Jul 4, 2011
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Cardiology
New study links antidepressants with improved cardiovascular outcomes
A new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute has found that screening for and treating depression could help to reduce the risk of heart disease in patients with moderate to severe depression.
Mar 5, 2015
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Medications
Researchers show how antidepressants treat nerve pain
Researchers at Australia's national science agency (CSIRO) have shown for the first time how tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) work against nerve pain, paving the way for further research and new therapies to treat the debilitating ...
May 2, 2022
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