Antidepressant

While illegal for recreational use, psychedelic drugs are showing great promise as treatments for severe depression and anxiety, as well as alcohol addiction and other conditions. Some advocates and scientists believe the actual psychedelic…

Simple computer-based neurocognitive training -- using positive words and pictures designed to boost self-worth -- prolongs the antidepressant effects of ketamine in people with treatment-resistant depression, University of Pittsburgh…

Ketamine, a well-known anesthetic used in smaller doses as a party drug, was hailed as a "new hope for depression" in a Time magazine cover story in 2017. Two years later, the arrival of the first ketamine-based antidepressant -- the nasal…

Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given for a limited amount of time because of its many side effects. Now, a new…

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A new study suggests that antidepressant use by mothers during the first trimester of pregnancy does not increase the chances of epilepsy and seizures in babies. The research is published in the May 11, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the…

Mayo Clinic researchers have taken the first step in using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict early outcomes with antidepressants in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder, in a study published in The Journal of Child…

While reporting bias persists, developers of new antidepressants have increasingly disclosed negative clinical trial outcomes. "Positive trials…

New research suggests manufacturers of newly developed antidepressant drugs have become more forthcoming about clinical trials that don't pan out. A new review and meta-analysis, published today in the journal PLOS Medicine, indicates that…

Previous studies had shown that the antidepressant drug duloxetine (Cymbalta) helped relieve pain in osteoarthritis (OA) patients, leading to…