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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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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Talking therapies are thought to be about as effective as antidepressant medication, but these are often much more expensive.
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Although antidepressant use in the U.S. has risen 400% since 1990, so has the rate of depression—and not just in America.
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The takeaway is echoed by several other studies that reach similar conclusions: Genetics and environmental factors could have even more to do with autism risk than antidepressant use.
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First Known Use of antidepressant
1961
Definition of antidepressant
: an antidepressant drug — see ssri, tricyclic antidepressant
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More Americans are using Zoloft, Prozac and other antidepressants than ever before.
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Thus, opioids, antidepressants, the common chemotherapy drug Melphalan -- the mussels tested positive for all of them.
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Someone may be on a prescribed medication, like an antibiotic or antidepressant, and consume a drug for recreational purposes, forgetting about the possible interactions.
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Those include medications that are known antidepressants such as bupropion and desipramine.
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Moreover, there is evidence from both laboratory animal studies and clinical studies that treatments that reduce inflammation may possess antidepressant properties.
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The mysterious February death of Northwestern University junior Kenzie Krogh was due to alcohol and two different antidepressants, according to findings released Wednesday from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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The medications include antipsychotics, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs and others.
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The new report also found that nearly 80% of deaths involving synthetic opioids also involved other drugs, including other opioids (50%), cocaine (22%), benzodiazepines (17%), alcohol (11%) and antidepressants (5%).
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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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