The current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics reports an article that analyzes the data that are available on what may happen when psychotropic drugs are discontinued.
Sep 25, 2020
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Children are struggling with mental health issues more now than perhaps ever before, though the treatment available—therapy, drugs, or both—differs widely from state to state.
Sep 21, 2020
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., with approximately 4.4 million children and adolescents affected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Aug 25, 2020
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Some highly effective medications also happen to be highly mysterious. Such is the case with the antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs: They are the most common treatment for major ...
Aug 14, 2020
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A review published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the obsessions and compulsions associated with the use of clozapine, an antipsychotic drug,
Jun 11, 2020
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Scientists have found that some people being treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have a greater tendency to commit violent crime. In addition, this effect seems to continue for up to 12 weeks after ...
May 29, 2020
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI's, are popular drugs that treat depression by increasing the amount of a neurotransmitter called serotonin in the brain. But when a common SSRI known as sertraline is taken ...
May 15, 2020
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Anxiety-prone people can blame serotonin cleanup proteins gone awry in their amygdala, according to research in marmosets recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting the amygdala with anti-anxiety medication could provide ...
May 11, 2020
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Children whose mothers had depression and took serotonergic antidepressants during pregnancy have an increased risk of deficits in language and cognition, compared to children of mothers who had depression during pregnancy ...
Apr 29, 2020
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Even as people are now being forced to social distance to avoid contracting coronavirus—a situation considered stressful for many—some people avoid social situations even under everyday circumstances. Social avoidance ...
Apr 28, 2020
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