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13 Sep 2024

Gen Z And Antidepressants: Understanding The Surge In Usage

Remember, it’s okay to ask for help if you feel sad or anxious. Just like you would ask for help if you had a broken arm, it’s important to get help for your feelings too.

24 Feb 2018

Heat build-up lesser in chaotically arranged cities: Study

An estimated 350 million have depression worldwide.

16 Jan 2018

Magic mushrooms may treat depression without dulling emotions

Previous research has shown that psilocybin - the active compound in magic mushrooms - may help to alleviate symptoms in patients with persistent depression by 'resetting' brain activity.

Antidepressants

15 Sep 2017

Antidepressants up risk of death: Study

The researchers reviewed studies involving hundreds of thousands of people and found that antidepressant users had a 33 per cent higher chance of death than non-users.

Antidepressants

04 Sep 2017

Antidepressants found accumulating in fish brains

Researchers detected high concentrations of these drugs and their metabolised remnants in the brain tissue of 10 fish species found in the Niagara River.

04 Mar 2017

Here comes an alternative for antidepressants

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is common, recurrent, chronic and disabling.

Antidepressants

12 Jan 2017

Antidepressant may up hip fracture risk in elderly

The study found that even in people without Alzheimer's, the regular use of antidepressants was associated with two times higher risk of hip fracture among controls.

03 Dec 2016

Beware expecting mothers! Antidepressants during pregnancy may up birth defects

A new study suggests that women who take a type of antidepressant during their early pregnancy may increase the risk of having babies with birth defects or stillbirths compared with those who did not take these pills.

25 May 2016

Depressison lowers chances of pregnancy in women!

The study found a 38 percent decrease in the average probability of conception in a given menstrual cycle among women who reported severe depressive symptoms, compared to those with no or low symptoms.

Antidepressants

27 Apr 2016

Antidepressants more effective with nutrient supplements

The findings showed that Omega 3 fish oils, S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe)*, methylfolate (bioactive form of folate) and Vitamin D, were all found to boost the effects of medication and can also be used as a mood enhancing therapy when taken with antidepressants.

Antidepressants

07 Feb 2016

Fast antidepressant may better treat depression: Study

Using biochemical tests on mouse neurons, the team found that CGP3466B, a compound already proven safe for people, works on the same signaling cascade and shows effects within hours.

Antidepressants

15 Dec 2015

Antidepressant use in pregnancy ups autism risk

The World Health Organization indicates that depression will be the second leading cause of death by 2020, which leads the researchers to believe that antidepressants will likely to remain widely prescribed, including during pregnancy.

15 Sep 2015

Study finds young people on anti-depressants more prone to violence

Young people taking antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat are significantly more likely to commit violent crimes when they are on the medication, but taking higher doses of the drugs appears to reduce that risk, scientists said on Tuesday.

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