Antidepressants

 

See also:

Anxiety & Stress

Medications for Pain

Neurobiology of Pain

Serotonin Syndrome

 

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Antidepressants

The term “antidepressant,” as applied to medications used to treat depression, is somewhat of a misnomer due to the important fact that this class of medications is used as often, if not more often, to treat other conditions including chronic pain, anxiety and psychiatric conditions other than depression. It might be more accurate to describe this class of medications as “neuromodulators” because in fact they modulate the nervous system in ways that are effective for multiple conditions.

 

Anti-depression drugs, which increase serotonin and dopamine levels, include:

 

Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRI)

   Trazodone

 

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s):

    Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro, and Celexa

 

Serotonin  and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRI’s):

   Cymbalta, Effexor, Savella

 

Tricylic Antidepressants (TCAs):

   Elavil, Doxepin, Desipramine, Imipramine

 

Monoamine Oxigenase inhibitors (MAOIs):

    Nardil, Parnate, Marplan and Emsam)

 

See also:

CAM – Depression

 

 

This page remains unfinished: an overview and summary of the articles below is forthcoming. In the meantime, please review the articles below.

 

 

 Handouts:

  1. Antidepressants & Savella – Precautions
  2. SNRIs

 

References:

 

Antidepressants – Overviews

 

Antidepressants for Anxiety

Antidepressants for Anxiety – Trazodone

  1. Antidepressants-for-the-treatment-of-generalized-anxiety-disorder-a-placebo-controlled-comparison-of-imipramine-trazodone-and-diazepam-pubmed-ncbi
  2. Trazodone-a-review-of-its-pharmacological-properties-and-therapeutic-use-in-depression-and-anxiety-1981
  3. Trazodone-in-the-treatment-of-panic-disorder-and-agoraphobia-with-panic-attacks-pubmed-ncbi

 

Antidepressants for Depression

Antidepressants for Depression – Trazodone

  1. Trazodone-a-review-of-its-pharmacological-properties-and-therapeutic-use-in-depression-and-anxiety-1981

 

Antidepressants for Pain

 

CAM Treatments for Depression

 

CAM Antidepressants – Rhodiola Rosea

  1. Rhodiola Rosea

CAM Antidepressants – St Johns Wort

 

 

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