Beyond anxiety and depression ... on chronic pain may be seen within just a few days. TCAs work about as well for depression as newer antidepressants like SSRIs and SNRIs. But while each of ...

The evolutionary perspective on depression suggest that depression may have healing value in its own right. Some ...

How do SSRI antidepressants work? For more than 30 years, SSRIs have been the first-line pharmacological treatments for anxiety and depression. They are also commonly prescribed to treat ...

A commonly-prescribed antidepressant reduces ... treat symptoms of depression and anxiety. But scientists still have little idea of how these kind of drugs work. In this study, published in ...

Antidepressants are medications that work by affecting the brain's neurotransmitters—chemical messengers that are responsible ...

“All antidepressants work by changing the function of ... like citalopram and fluoxetine, we do sometimes see a worsening of anxiety or depression symptoms, or even thoughts of suicide, in ...

Nothing seemed to work, and so ... I could have saved myself years of anxiety and anguish. The latest science might lead some to conclude that antidepressants do very little for depression.

Suggestions that antidepressants work only in severely depressed patients have been based largely on analyses comparing different study outcomes — i.e., fewer overall study effects were found in ...

A new study in animals suggests that targeting antidepressant medications to cells in the gut could not only be an effective treatment of mood disorders like depression and anxiety but may also ...

“An SSRI that selectively raises serotonin in the intestine could be a better alternative.” How do SSRI antidepressants work? For more than 30 years, SSRIs have been the first-line pharmacological ...