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This is a complete list of clinically approved prescription antidepressants throughout the world, as well as clinically approved prescription drugs used to augment antidepressants or mood stabilizers, by pharmacological and/or structural classification.
This allows ICF to be coded as fatigue or unspecified chronic fatigue, and help distinguish it from other forms of fatigue including cancer-related fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue due to depression, fatigue due to old age, weakness/asthenia, and in the ICD-10, also from fatigue lasting under 6 months.
Amitriptyline, sold under the brand name Elavil among others, is a tricyclic antidepressant primarily used to treat major depressive disorder, and a variety of pain syndromes such as neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, migraine and tension headaches. [12]
Antidepressant withdrawal syndrome may occur if stopped. [10] There are concerns that use during the later part of pregnancy can harm the developing fetus. [10] Duloxetine was approved for medical use in the United States [10] [13] and the European Union in 2004. [5] [7] It is available as a generic medication. [12]
In medicine, not otherwise specified (NOS) is a subcategory in systems of disease/disorder classification such as ICD-9, ICD-10, or DSM-IV.It is generally used to note the presence of an illness where the symptoms presented were sufficient to make a general diagnosis, but where a specific diagnosis was not made.
Cyclobenzaprine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1977. [5] It is available by prescription as a generic medication. [5] In 2022, it was the 45th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 13 million prescriptions. [8] [9] It was not available in the United Kingdom as of 2012. [10]
MAOIs are an older class of antidepressants, primarily used in the 20th century. Because of their side effects and interaction risk, most MAOIs have been replaced by newer antidepressants over the ...
Antidepressants that have dual mechanisms of action inhibit the reuptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine and, in some cases, inhibit with weak effect the reuptake of dopamine. [10] Antidepressants affect variable neuronal receptors such as muscarinic cholinergic, α 1 - and α 2-adrenergic, H 1-histaminergic, and sodium channels in the ...