Browsing: Antidepressants

In 2015, psychiatrist Mark Horowitz tried to come off his antidepressants. He reduced his dosage by a set proportion over…

PODCAST: Serendipitous discoveries led to drugs like Prozac and to new insights into the physical basis of this debilitating disorder.…

The Northern Hemisphere is in the midst of yet another record-breaking heat wave. 1,700 people died from heat-related causes in…

Shalamar suffered from chronic insomnia. She couldn’t fall asleep after her late-night shifts as a server at a New York…

In the last week of September 2021, a group of more than 90 doctors and researchers published a call to…

The incidence of depression and anxiety has surged among adults in the United States over the course of the COVID-19…

Crissi Estep had been on Cymbalta (duloxetine) for a few years when the medication seemed to stop working. At first,…

The anesthetic ketamine is increasingly being used off-label for depression. The drug seems to work rapidly, but its long-term side…

The irony of antidepressants is that the side effects can cause symptoms similar to the depression they treat. Here is what to expect and how to handle it.

Deaths related to the adverse events of medical treatments fell between 1990 and 2016. Researchers examined the causes of death…