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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
But at the same time, numbers from the CDC show that fatal overdoses involving antidepressants have been on the rise for the past two decades. John Yang speaks with clinical psychologist and ...