News articles tagged with 'antidepressant'
New TMS clinic offers noninvasive treatment for major depression
— 6 Nov 2009 12:22 | HealthRush University Medical Centre has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment.... — full story
Study reveals an increase in long-term antidepressant drug use
— 26 Oct 2009 09:21 | HealthA dramatic rise in antidepressant prescriptions issued by GPs has been caused by a year on year increase in the number of people taking antidepressant drugs on a long-term basis, according... — full story
Popular antidepressant associated with a dramatic increase in suicidal thoughts amongst men
— 15 Oct 2009 08:47 | HealthNortriptyline has been found to cause a ten-fold increase in suicidal thoughts in men when compared to its competitor escitalopram. These findings are published in the open access journal... — full story
Antidepressant use during pregnancy associated with some adverse outcomes in newborns
— 6 Oct 2009 17:57 | HealthExposure to a certain class of antidepressant medications during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of preterm birth, a low five-minute Apgar score (a measure of overall... — full story
UCLA researchers develop biomarker for rapid relief of major depression
— 11 Sep 2009 12:54 | HealthIt is a long, slow slog to treat major depression. Many antidepressant medications are available, but no single biomarker or diagnostic test exists to predict which one is right for... — full story
Antidepressant use increasing in the United States
— 4 Aug 2009 10:58 | HealthA marked and broad expansion in antidepressant treatment occurred among Americans older than 6 years between 1996 and 2005, although treatment rates remain low among racial and ethnic... — full story
Antidepressants aid electroconvulsive therapy in treating severe depression
— 7 Jul 2009 14:33 | HealthCombining antidepressant drugs with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) does a better job of reducing symptoms of severe depression and causes less memory loss than using ECT alone, according... — full story
Antidepressant directly stimulates brain growth factor receptors
— 26 Jun 2009 12:55 | HealthThe widely used antidepressant and pain medication amitriptyline - but not other closely related drugs - can impersonate the brain's own growth factors, researchers at Emory University... — full story
Intervention helps reduce pain and depression
— 27 May 2009 12:00 | HealthFor patients who experience pain and depression, common co-existing conditions, an intervention that included individually tailored antidepressant therapy and a pain self-management... — full story
Participants in antidepressant drug trials are atypical patients
— 13 May 2009 01:42 | HealthOne reason antidepressant medication treatments do not work as well in real life as they do in clinical studies could be the limited type of study participants selected, researchers... — full story