Depression: What Is It? Why Drug Treatment?
A great deal has been written on the subject of defining the medical illness of depression. That is not a main theme of this website, nor do I profess to…
A great deal has been written on the subject of defining the medical illness of depression. That is not a main theme of this website, nor do I profess to…
Lamotrigine has the most satisfactory side-effect and safety profile of any of the new mood stabilizing antiepileptic drugs (1). Present experience indicates it can be very effective in people with bipolar disorder…
A Brief Review of drug-drug interactions involving antidepressants Introduction and background A large proportion of patients do not get an ideal result from the first antidepressant that they are given,…
The best tricyclic antidepressants remain important and effective treatments for major depressive disorder. However the relatively higher toxicity of some of them in overdose (especially dothiepin-- see ‘toxicity’), and other…