### science | medicine:

Antidepressant
* All antidepressants are equally effective in treating depression
  - can cause a very few people to become more aggressive or suicidal
* All antidepressants have some side effects
  - the potential of increasing cycling
  - take time to work
* Learn about antidepressant therapy while pregnant and breastfeeding.
* Many antidepressants also increase one's appetite
  - are on the market
  - cause withdrawal symptoms if stopped too quickly
  - have an impact on the dopamine system or dopaminergic-blocking action
  - seem to have sexual side effects
* Most antidepressants are slow to work
  - have anti- anxiety effects
  - improve libido because depression tends to decrease it
  - work by regulating the amounts of chemicals released into the brain
* Some antidepressants affect many neurotransmitters together with noradrenaline and serotonin.
* Some antidepressants are also effective
  - better than others with regard to breastfeeding
  - common offenders, as are some drugs for head and back injuries
  - more likely than others to interfere with sexual function
  - block the enzyme that chews up neurotransmitter
* Some antidepressants can cause suicidal or aggressive thoughts and behaviour
  - dry up saliva
  - help panic
  - inhibit orgasm
  - suppress appetite, but again the actual pounds lost is small
  - cost more than others
  - e.g. the tricyclics, block the reuptake of serotonin and noradrenaline
  - have a sedative effect while others tend to have a slightly stimulating effect
  - interfere with the potency or the act itself
  - work by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine
* account for the most drug sales.
* affect the brain s neurotransmitters to help improve mood and energy level.
* also can help with some sorts of nerve pain.
* appear equally effective.
* are a non-habit forming medical treatment for depression
  - among the most widely prescribed medications in the United States
  - as common as candy
  - beneficial in treating specific pain syndromes
  - dangerous
  - easy to get
* are effective in bulimic patients who have no depressive symptoms, as well
  - reducing neuropathic pain
  - medications that prevent or relieve depression
* are medicines that treat depression
  - used to treat depression and other illnesses
  - medicines, which correct the neurotransmitter metabolism
  - most effective when a. the depressed person is also receiving counseling
  - no exception
  - powerful and, as such, have many side effects and complications
* are the most widely used preventive medicine a
  - standard treatment for both types of neuropathies
  - unnatural and unhealthy
  - useful in managing depression and anxiety
  - usually only a part of treatment
* bind the serotonin transporters, making serotonin uptake impossible.
* can act within two to three weeks and often are used in addition to psychotherapy.
* can also help
  - increase one's susceptibility to the intoxicating effects of alcohol
* can be effective for various physical symptoms and symptom syndromes
  - good and bad
* can be very effective
  - helpful for people suffering from depression
  - cause mild and usually temporary side effects in some people
* can have side effects, especially in older persons who metabolize drugs more slowly
  - strong antihistamine and antipruritic effects
  - help reduce symptoms, usually over a period of weeks
  - provide relief of symptoms within one to two months
  - relieve emotional stress that leads to symptoms of back pain
  - restore the balance
  - sometimes help
  - take several weeks to take effect
  - treat the mood alarm
  - worsen certain types of glaucoma and cause constipation
* cause cancer
  - mouth dryness
* do have sexual adverse effects.
* don t all work in the same way.
* have a dosage window
  - lot of side effects
  - more inconsistent effect
  - role as comedication in the acute treatment of the bipolar depression
  - beneficial effects and side effects
  - seven distinct mechanisms of action
  - two roles in managing chronic pain
  - virtually no abuse potential
* help depressed alcoholics
  - smokers to quit
* help, and so does education about nutrition.
* helps alleviate some of their symptoms.
* improve depression in adults with physical illnesses
  - mood and reverse the symptoms of depression
* increase brain steroids
  - the level of certain important neurotransmitters
* often have severe side effects.
* only remove depression.
* provide a way to cope.
* regulate the way the brain deals with serotonin.
* relieve depression in the depressed and cause excitement in a normal person.
* seem to alleviate peripheral neuropathy
  - block panic attacks by reducing the firing rate of the locus ceruleus
  - ease the pain in soft-tissue rheumatism or fibromyalgia
* simply balance the level of neurotransmitters already in the brain
  - raise serotonin levels and thus bring chemical balance in the brain
* sometimes produce side effects like dry mouth or constipation.
* suppress REM in people with major depression.
* take from four to six weeks to have a strongly beneficial effect
  - time to take effect
* typically have about a three week delay to onset of effect.
* usually take between two and eight weeks to work.
* work by increasing the amount of neurotransmitters available at the synapse
  - level of neurotransmitters in the brain
  - differently for different people
  - on the brain and nervous system
  - through a healing process, which often takes two to five weeks to start
  - to improve the mood
* work, as do high-potency benzodiazepines.
+ Antidepressant, How they work: Drugs used in psychiatry
  * Antidepressants work to improve the mood. Doctors think that when someone is depressed, the chemicals in their brain are not working properly. Antidepressants balance these chemicals, lifting the depression.