Definition of antidepressant
: used or tending to relieve or prevent depression
- antidepressant drugs
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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There’s every reason to think that tinkering with that receptor system could have antidepressant effects, and it’s never been systematically manipulated in that way.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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In interviews, dozens of people who had experienced antidepressant withdrawal recounted similar stories: The drugs often relieved mood problems, at first.
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First Known Use of antidepressant
1961
Definition of antidepressant
: an antidepressant drug — see ssri, tricyclic antidepressant
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The mussels also contained four kinds of synthetic surfactants -- the chemicals found in detergents and cleaning products -- seven kinds of antibiotics, five types of antidepressants, more than one antidiabetic drug and one chemotherapy agent.
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Some of the different antidepressants had a lot of side effects.
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Escitalopram is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which increase your levels of serotonin to help maintain mental balance.
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The condition had some biological basis, it was felt, and antidepressants became a vastly popular option.
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In general, antidepressants alter the levels of neurotransmitters, like serotonin and dopamine, in the brain.
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When infused at low doses into patients with life-threatening depression, ketamine has been shown to be a powerful and fast-acting antidepressant.
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Painkillers and antidepressants were listed, which could be related to underlying reasons for the depression.
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For much of the past two decades, 51-year-old Angie Slinker took a cocktail of narcotics, antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications to manage the pain stemming from a car accident in 1998.
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First Known Use of antidepressant
1962
ANTIDEPRESSANT Defined for English Language Learners
antidepressant
Definition of antidepressant for English Language Learners
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medical : a drug that is used to relieve or prevent depression in a person
Medical Dictionary
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medical Definition of antidepressant
: used or tending to relieve or prevent psychological depression : relating to, being, or utilizing an antidepressant
- an antidepressant drug
- antidepressant treatment
medical Definition of antidepressant
: a drug used to treat psychological depression : an antidepressant drug
- The dual-action antidepressant venlafaxine appears to demonstrate superior efficacy and higher rates of remission in severe depression as compared with either SSRIs such as fluoxetine or tricyclic antidepressants.
- —John Mann, The New England Journal of Medicine, 27 Oct. 2005
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