antidepressant
抗抑郁剂,抗忧郁剂,抗抑郁药,抗抑郁症药物
Definitions
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- : of or relating to a substance that is used in the treatment of mood disorders, as characterized by various manic or depressive affects.
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- : Also called energizer, psychic energizer. any such substance, as a tricyclic antidepressant, MAO inhibitor, or lithium.
Examples
It’s also that drugs like traditional antidepressants are, at best, only a partial solution.
Prescriptions for antidepressants, anti-anxiety and anti-insomnia medications shot up 21 percent between February and March, according to Elemental.
A form of ketamine, if you will, a so-called enantiomer called esketamine, was approved last year as an antidepressant.
When I was just a trainee, Dennis Charney had started what was a very early research program in looking at whether ketamine could have rapid antidepressant effects.
The chemical messenger has become key to one common class of antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
However, it can interfere seriously with blood thinners and should never be taken with other antidepressant drugs.
She began to attend therapy and to see a psychiatrist, who prescribed an antidepressant.
[It] does not resemble standard antipsychotic, antidepressant, antianxiety or hypnotic drugs in simple drug interaction tests.
“A doctor would never prescribe more than one antidepressant,” says Dr. Frank Vaccaro, a prominent New York psychiatrist.
"Antidepressant drugs, for me, they're like antibiotics ," he says.