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Migraine.com
Antidepressant Drugs
Migraine.com
Some drugs that treat depression, called antidepressants, have been found to be effective in preventing migraines, even in people who do not experience depression.1. There are different types of antidepressants, including tricyclic antidepressants, ...

CANOE
'Storm Chasers' star Joel Taylor died from ecstasy, antidepressant overdose
CANOE
The Storm Chasers star, who was just 38 years old, succumbed to a “combination of ecstasy and tricyclic antidepressants,” Karixia Ortiz Serrano of the Institute of Forensic Sciences of Puerto Rico told Radar. “He overdosed.” The recent update came from ...
'Storm Chasers' Star Joel Taylor Died of MDMA Overdose On Cruise ShipTMZ
'Storm Chasers' Star Joel Taylor Died From Ecstasy, Antidepressant OverdoseRadar Online
'Storm Chasers' Star Joel Taylor Died from MDMA, Ketamine PoisoningThe Blast

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Antidepressant use may exacerbate sleep breathing disruptions
Healio
The use of antidepressants, specifically serotonergic agents, may worsen sleep-related breathing disturbances in individuals with depression, according to findings presented at SLEEP 2018, the Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

Metro
I may be on antidepressants for the rest of my life – and I'm OK with that
Metro
This coming autumn will mark my seventh year of taking antidepressants. It began when I was 19 and due to start university after an unplanned gap year in which I'd spent all day, every day worrying myself sick that I was a terrible person who was ...

Breakthrough study finds new mechanism explaining ketamine's antidepressant effects
New Atlas
A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago has uncovered a new mechanism that helps explain the remarkably rapid, and long-lasting, antidepressant effects of the controversial drug ketamine. The exciting research reveals the drug operates in a ...

MedPage Today
FDA Shakes Up Guidance on Antidepressant Trial Design
MedPage Today
The FDA released new draft guidance for development and testing new pharmacologic agents indicated to treat major depressive disorder (MDD). For example, the new guidance offers specifics on testing the emerging classes of rapid-action antidepressants ...
SSRI Dose Increase Not Recommended for Antidepressant Treatment FailurePsychiatry Advisor

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Medical Xpress
Could Antidepressants During Pregnancy Slow a Child's Motor Skills?
U.S. News & World Report
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What are the effects of antidepressants during pregnancy?Medical Xpress

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2 Minute Medicine
Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure and Child Motor Development: A ...
AAP News
CONTEXT: There is increasing use of antidepressants in pregnancy and hence children exposed in utero. Contradictory studies exist in the literature in which ...
Prenatal antidepressant exposure may increase risk of poor motor development2 Minute Medicine

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2 Minute Medicine
Prenatal antidepressant exposure may increase risk of poor motor development
2 Minute Medicine
A meta-analysis of 18 studies examining the association of prenatal antidepressant exposure with motor development in children showed a small overall effect of worse motor development outcomes among children exposed to antidepressants in pregnancy.

Fathers' antidepressant use doesn't worsen babies' health risks ...
Business Insider
By Jocelyn Wiener. (Reuters Health) - Fathers' use of antidepressant medications around the time mothers become pregnant does not increase babies' risk of ...

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Mental Health Industry Watchdog
antidepressant use in children
Mental Health Industry Watchdog
A May 2018 review published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, entitled “Paediatric antidepressants: Benefits and. Read More · 0. Popular; Recent. Thomas Szasz · Over 50 Years Ago Thomas Szasz Rocked the World of Psychiatry.

Fathers' antidepressant use doesn't worsen babies' health risks
Reuters
(Reuters Health) - Fathers' use of antidepressant medications around the time mothers become pregnant does not increase babies' risk of preterm birth, birth defects, autism or intellectual disability, according to a study in the BMJ. Study leader Sven ...

Fathers' antidepressant use doesn't worsen babies' health risks
WSAU News
By Jocelyn Wiener. (Reuters Health) - Fathers' use of antidepressant medications around the time mothers become pregnant does not increase babies' risk of preterm birth, birth defects, autism or intellectual disability, according to a study in the BMJ.

Mental Health Industry Watchdog
Studies of Antidepressant Use in Pediatric Patients Reveal a Lack of Effectiveness
Mental Health Industry Watchdog
A May 2018 review published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, entitled “Paediatric antidepressants: Benefits and Risks,” looked at the published data on effectiveness and risks of antidepressant medication in children and has ...

Incidence of Extrapyramidal Symptoms Higher With Certain Antidepressants
Monthly Prescribing Reference
The use of certain antidepressants may put patients at increased risk for extrapyramidal symptoms (EPSs), according to a large pharmacoepidemiologic study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. In order to quantify the association ...

Discover Magazine (blog)
Ayahuasca, the Psychedelic Antidepressant?
Discover Magazine (blog)
In the present study, Brazilian researchers Fernanda Palhano-Fontes and colleagues gave ayahuasca to 14 patients with chronic depression who hadn't responded to other antidepressants. Another 15 depressed patients received a placebo drink.

EEG can determine if a depressed patient will do better on antidepressants or talk therapy
Science Daily
"About 50 percent of people prescribed either selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, -- a class of antidepressants -- or cognitive behavioral therapy get better with those treatments," said Katie Burkhouse, assistant professor of psychiatry ...

TheFix.com
New Generation Of Antidepressants On FDA Fast Track
TheFix.com
The study administered esketamine (a close relative of ketamine) to adults with treatment-resistant depression, in addition to a “newly initiated oral antidepressant,” and discovered a “statistically significant, clinically meaningful rapid reduction ...

Medscape
No Firm Answers on Prenatal Antidepressant Use and Autism Risk
Medscape
MIAMI — A new meta-analysis of studies that examined prenatal antidepressant (AD) exposure as a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shows there is wide variation in the definition and selection of comparison groups and that this leads to ...