Adolescence is a roller coaster of emotions, and for many teens, depression becomes an unwelcome passenger. We’ve spoken before about how society tends to believe children cannot suffer from clinical ...

Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk of adverse effects in this population.

Thousands of bottles of a popular antidepressant medication are being recalled due to the presence of what the National ...

Research suggests that antidepressants may help treat menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes and night sweats. Antidepressants are medications that help treat symptoms of depression. Most impact ...

Some bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine, sold under the brand name Cymbalta, were recalled due to the presence of a ...

Antidepressant use has been increasing since ... have risen nearly 50 per cent in the past 15 years. We go inside a teen brain to show how modern pressures affect the adolescent mind.

The effect of antidepressants on sleep has been widely documented, with different people experiencing varying side effects, depending on the medication they take. When I first started taking ...

The FDA required that a Black Box warning be placed on antidepressants in 2005, notifying doctors of this possible effect in ...

A pharmaceutical company issued a recall this month for thousands of bottles of duloxetine, a medicine often prescribed to ...

The warnings say that antidepressants might be associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and teens, and were intended to prompt doctors to more closely monitor young people ...

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are a class of drugs that have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat depression. They work by increasing the levels of brain chemicals ...

Consumers must be informed that a percentage of those taking psychotropic drugs may experience violent, even homicidal, and ...