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2. Switching Antidepressants: Safety, Side Effects & Other ... - AOL

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   Sexual side effects. Some antidepressants, including commonly prescribed ones from the class known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), can cause sexual side effects such as ...

3. Your Guide to the 6 Most Common Types of Depression ... - AOL

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   Medications for Depression: An Overview. Antidepressants are a class of medications used very commonly to treat depression. In fact, nearly 13 percent of people 12 and over in the U.S. used ...

4. Antidepressant - Wikipedia

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   The effect size (SMD) for improvement with placebo in trials of antidepressants for anxiety disorders is approximately 1.0, which is a large improvement in terms of effect size definitions. [45] In relation to this, most of the benefit of antidepressants for anxiety disorders is attributable to placebo responses rather than to the effects of ...

5. Can Taking Antidepressants Cause Weight Loss? - AOL

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   Other theories involve the effects of antidepressants on receptor sites for acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter that may play a role in appetite stimulation. Depression itself can also have an ...

6. Pharmacology of antidepressants - Wikipedia

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   The pharmacology of antidepressants is not entirely clear.. The earliest and probably most widely accepted scientific theory of antidepressant action is the monoamine hypothesis (which can be traced back to the 1950s), which states that depression is due to an imbalance (most often a deficiency) of the monoamine neurotransmitters (namely serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine). [1]

7. Depressant - Wikipedia

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   This enzyme is responsible for converting many drugs, from beta blockers to antidepressants to opioids and opiates. Due to its effects on the conversion of opioids, it was highly abused and mixed with opioids like codeine. Codeine must be metabolized to morphine in the liver to have its psychoactive and analgesic effects. Mixing codeine with ...