antidepressant

It’s also that drugs like traditional antidepressants are, at best, only a partial solution.

Prescriptions for antidepressants, anti-anxiety and anti-insomnia medications shot up 21 percent between February and March, according to Elemental.

When I was just a trainee, Dennis Charney had started what was a very early research program in looking at whether ketamine could have rapid antidepressant effects.

A form of ketamine, if you will, a so-called enantiomer called esketamine, was approved last year as an antidepressant.

The chemical messenger has become key to one common class of antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin r­euptake inhibitors.

However, it can interfere seriously with blood thinners and should never be taken with other antidepressant drugs.

She began to attend therapy and to see a psychiatrist, who prescribed an antidepressant.

[It] does not resemble standard antipsychotic, antidepressant, antianxiety or hypnotic drugs in simple drug interaction tests.

“A doctor would never prescribe more than one antidepressant,” says Dr. Frank Vaccaro, a prominent New York psychiatrist.

"Antidepressant drugs, for me, they're like antibiotics ," he says.