An excessive initial dose of antidepressant medication can cause ... The adage, "start low and go slow" is a prudent guideline for the elderly when the goal is to maximize compliance and minimize ...

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 pain. In rare cases, the use of certain ...

The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

But at the same time, numbers from the CDC show that fatal overdoses involving antidepressants have been on the rise for the past two decades. John Yang speaks with clinical psychologist and ...

Like a roll call of lieutenants on a starship, they file into our minds carrying a string of preconceived, and often inaccurate, ideas of what antidepressant means. Ramifications of Shame and ...

Vortioxetine, an antidepressant, showed promising anti-glioblastoma activity, significantly reducing tumor size in preclinical trials. A direct comparison between the experimental psychedelic drug ...

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are a class of drugs that have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat depression. They work by increasing the levels of brain chemicals ...

(CNN) — The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

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Treatments may include a type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), beta-blockers (to reduce the physical symptoms associated with anxiety), or benzodiazepines ...

That’s the finding of the most comprehensive analysis to date that confirms withdrawal effects from widely used antidepressant medications are common and increase with longer use. The systematic ...