... ; One last thing.  By publishing this post I am not aiming to convince you that your antidepressants do not work for you.  Maybe they do.  I'm also not telling you to stop ... ; What the researchers found was this:  the relation between initial severity and antidepressants is not attributable to the increasing efficacy of the drugs but to the decreasing efficacy of placebo.& ...

... fluoxetine (Prozac). Ververs and her colleagues found that of the children whose mothers had used antidepressants throughout pregnancy, three had to have a major heart procedure performed in their first year of life. That made them six times more likely than children whose mothers had never used antidepressants to need a heart procedure. The risk was not elevated among children whose mothers had ...

... drugs aim at wrong target CHICAGO --- More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat ... Redei said. "This research opens up new routes to develop new antidepressants that may be more effective. There hasn't been an antidepressant based on a novel concept in 20 years ...

... Association. More than half of the 47 studies found that patients on antidepressants improved no more than those on placebos, Kirsch says. "They should have told the American public about ... FDA requires two studies showing a statistically significant effect for approval of antidepressants. "We've seen over and over that these drugs work, but they work best along with ...

... hspace="4"/> Antidepressants get to work immediately to lift mood, contrary ... negative thought cycles can also help. "We found the antidepressants target the negative thoughts before the patient is aware ... research may contribute to our understanding of how our bodies respond to antidepressants, but the changes recorded can’t always be felt by patients and it can be some weeks ...

In a recent article featured in New Scientist magazine, it was unveiled that antidepressants could be linked to birth defects. In a typical catch 22 situation it ... year to help doctors do exactly that concluded that women who get pregnant whilst already on a course of antidepressants should consider the option of psychotherapy, especially in mild cases. They also recommend that doctors discuss ...