[45] The TCAs are effective agents in depression ... best tolerated and most studied TCA in this patient group. [47] Electrocardiograms must be obtained prior to beginning TCA therapy in the ...

The Geriatric Depression Scale has been the best validated among the elderly; however, it may not useful in the moderately to severely cognitively impaired elderly, and there has been little ...

Antidepressants, the gold standard treatment for depression, don’t work for many people. Will psilocybin be an alternative?

The antidepressant known as bupropion (Wellbutrin) may not be the best antidepressant for everyone ... In some research, men ...

The best way I can describe it is a sense ... There is an added side effect for elderly people who take antidepressants as they affect the balance of fluids in the body and can cause muscle ...

Dear Eric: I divorced my wife after 25 years of marriage. After she went on some medication for depression, her personality ...

Researchers found such physical exercises ease depression ... effective for both men and women, strength training was more effective for women, and yoga or qigong was more effective for men. "Yoga was ...

Dear Eric: Our daughter went for a “visit” to Indiana with her boyfriend. My instinct that she was never coming back proved ...

Another difficulty in diagnosing pseudodementia is that the symptoms of depression and many progressive neurological conditions may overlap in older adults. It is also possible for someone to have ...

Older people ... dementia and depression can be mentally exhausting. It’s unlikely that someone feeling very low will have the energy to do lots of activities. trying to do too much at once may be ...

Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband Dominique drugged her and invited more than 50 strangers to systematically rape her as she lay ...