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Obesity Risk Higher When Stressed And On Antidepressants
RedOrbit
Stress and high fat diets are common factors that cause weight gain, but researchers at John Curtin School of Medical Research have linked short-term antidepressant use to long-term weight gain as well. “Our study suggests that short-term exposure to ...

Short-term antidepressant use, stress, high-fat diet leads to long-term weight ...
Newstrack India
Washington, June 18 (ANI): A new animal study has found that short-term use of antidepressants, combined with stress and a high-fat diet, is associated with long-term increases in body weight. "Our study suggests that short-term exposure to stress and ...

Ketamine for Depression: The Most Important Advance in Field in 50 Years?
TIME
Ketamine doesn't work the way traditional antidepressants do. Many such drugs affect levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain, and while the idea that depression is caused by low levels of serotonin or an “imbalance” of other key ...

Opioid–Antidepressant Combinations Prominent In Drug Overdose Deaths
Pain Medicine News
Of the 22,134 drug overdose deaths involving pharmaceuticals in the United States in 2010, three-fourths involved opioid analgesics, according to an analysis by officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In a research letter ...

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Talk Therapy or Antidepressant? A Brain Scan Predicts Which Works Best for ...
TIME
Depression affects an estimated 1 in 5 people over a lifetime, and talk therapies and antidepressant medications can help a significant proportion of those patients. But figuring out who will benefit most from which treatments remains a major challenge ...
Neuroimaging May Predict Best Treatment for DepressionMedscape
Brain changes seen among patients having depression therapyToronto NewsFIX

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Short-Term Antidepressant Use, Stress, High-Fat Diet Linked to Long-Term ...
Science Daily (press release)
"Our study suggests that short-term exposure to stress and antidepressants, rather than a high-calorie, high-fat diet alone, leads to long-term body weight gain, accompanied with increased bone and spleen weights," said study lead author Suhyun Lee, a ...

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Short-term antidepressant use, stress, high-fat diet linked to long-term ...
EurekAlert (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO—- Short-term use of antidepressants, combined with stress and a high-fat diet, is associated with long-term increases in body weight, a new animal study finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual ...

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Antidepressant treatment in elderly may not be very effective
Toronto NewsFIX
According to a study, the antidepressant citalopram is no better than a placebo in patients of 75 or more. Depression is often a problem in older people. It can be treated with antidepressant drugs, but a question remains as to how effective these ...

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Antidepressant Prozac causes aggressive and murderous behavior in fish
TheCelebrityCafe.com
New research by the scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has found that fish that are exposed to Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, show aggressive and even homicidal behavior. According to Daily Mail, the fish were exposed to varying ...

Antidepressants: Ineffective, but Harmful?
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Barbie and The Aspirin If you've been staying up on medication news, you are probably aware that a lot of the recent literature has pointed to the inefficacy of antidepressants for patients with bipolar disorder. Now, a study from Brown University in ...

The Atlantic
Who Should Take Antidepressants?
The Atlantic
Amid calls for more science in psychiatry, part of the $100 million the U.S. government is spending this year on the BRAIN Initiative will go toward "mapping the human brain" in the interest of more concrete diagnoses. Basing treatments on harder data ...

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Antidepressants of Questionable Value in Late-Onset Illness
Medscape
Adults aged 60 years and older with long-standing moderate to severe depression are most likely to derive clinically meaningful benefit from antidepressant therapy. In contrast, antidepressants do not appear to be effective for older patients with late ...

Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy May Affect Baby
CBS 47
March 13, 2013 -- Babies of moms who take antidepressants have a slightly higher risk of being born preterm and other problems. But the risk to the mom and baby of stopping antidepressants may outweigh the risks of using them, new research suggests.

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Antidepressant Mirtazapine Studied for Fibromyalgia
ProHealth
Editor's comment: Mirtazapine (brand name Remeron) is a tetracyclic antidepressant. It is not known exactly how mirtazapine works but it is thought to increase the activity of certain chemicals in the brain (eg, norepinephrine, serotonin). Efficacy and ...

Depression, antidepressant use may increase risk for diabetes and CVD in ...
News-Medical.net
Postmenopausal women who use antidepressant medication or suffer from depression might be more likely to have a higher body mass index (BMI), larger waist circumference and inflammation-all associated with increased risk for diabetes and ...
Depression in Postmenopausal Women May Up Diabetes and Cardiovascular ...Counsel & Heal

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Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy May Affect Baby
KOKI FOX 23
March 13, 2013 -- Babies of moms who take antidepressants have a slightly higher risk of being born preterm and other problems. But the risk to the mom and baby of stopping antidepressants may outweigh the risks of using them, new research suggests.

Pressured Queensland school students resort to anti-anxiety, antidepressant ...
Courier Mail
Year 11 and 12 students are increasingly taking anti-anxiety and antidepressant medication to handle continuous written assignments, according to one clinical psychologist. Teachers and parents have told a Queensland Parliament inquiry into senior ...

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Research Report on China's Antidepressant Market, 2013-2017
PR Newswire (press release)
Oct. 10 is "World Mental Health Day". In 2012, its theme is "Depression: a Global Crisis". According to statistics from the United Nations, about 350 million people suffer from depression in the world. Approximately one million people commit suicide ...

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Research Report on China's Antidepressant Market, 2013-2017
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Oct. 10 is "World Mental Health Day". In 2012, its theme is "Depression: a Global Crisis". According to statistics from the United Nations, about 350 million people suffer from depression in the world. Approximately one million people commit suicide ...

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Rat Study Finds Long-term Use of Antidepressants May Hinder Treatment of ...
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Rat Study Finds Long-term Use of Antidepressants May Hinder Treatment of PTSD, Some New animal research suggests long-term use of a class of medicines used to commonly treat depression may have a downside by interfering with a technique used to ...

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