Tuesday, November 29, 2011
If you have depression and are struggling financially, the last thing you want to give up is your depression treatment, but you may feel that you just can’t justify paying for your treatment instead of rent, food and utilities. Here are a few ideas that might help you continue with therapy and medication treatment. Therapy [...]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Does your antidepressant “kind of” work? If you feel better, but not good or normal, after starting a new antidepressant, you’re probably experiencing what’s known as a “partial response.” This can be very frustrating, and unfortunately many people assume that a partial response is the best they’re going to get, especially if their doctor hasn’t [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
One of the first multicenter pilot studies to examine deep-brain stimulation DBS for severe depression confirms earlier evidence that this treatment is effective.In the open-label study, investigators targeted the subcallosal cingulate gyrus area of the brain in 21 patients with long-term treatment-resistant depression TRD. One year after receiving DBS implantation, a majority of the study [...]
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(HealthDay News) — High doses of the popular antidepressant Celexa can cause potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythms and should no longer be prescribed to patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Doses of Celexa (citalopram hydrobromide) greater than 40 milligrams a day can cause changes in the electrical activity of the heart, which [...]
(HealthDay News) — Americans are popping more antidepressants than ever before to deal with everyday stress, and non-psychiatrists are increasingly willing to prescribe the drugs to patients with no mental health diagnosis, a new study finds. Antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Lexapro are now the third most widely prescribed group of drugs in the [...]
(HealthDay News) — In the days after they start taking non-SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants, such as bupropion or venlafaxine, nursing home residents are at significantly greater risk for falls, according to a new study. Researchers found the increased risk for falls also applies to those who had a dosage increase of their current [...]
IN terms of perception, these are hard times for antidepressants. A number of articles have suggested that the drugs are no more effective than placebos. Last month brought an especially high-profile debunking. In an essay in The New York Review of Books, Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, [...]
(Reuters Health) – Two antidepressants appear to be associated with a small risk of birth defects, according to a new analysis based on national data from Finland. Specifically, the researchers found that women taking fluoxetine (Prozac) and paroxetine (Paxil) were slightly more likely to give birth to babies with specific types of heart defects. But [...]
(HealthDay News) — As a component of depression treatment, psychotherapy not only reduces anxiety, but also improves patients’ stress hormone levels, new research shows. The study, published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, found that when pharmacotherapy is combined with psychotherapy in treating depressed patients, there is an improvement in their levels of [...]
Recently I was looking online for some information that family member needed about whether it was safe to take melatonin when you were on an antidepressant. I was pretty sure that they should not be taken at the same time. I groaned when I saw the answer that someone had posted to this particular question [...]
