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N.Y. Research Team Discovers How Antidepressants And Cocaine Interact With Brain Cell Target.
In a first, scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center have described the specifics of how brain cells process antidepressant drugs, cocaine and amphetamines. These novel findings could prove useful in the development of more targeted medication therapies for [...]
When a person suffers from biochemically-induced depression, counseling and psychotherapy treatments from even the greatest doctors are doomed to fail. That’s because words have no power to cure the biochemical disruption in the brain, which causes the affliction. For many, depression is known as a direct result of tragic external events. However, research studies have [...]
Antidepressants are basically a class of medicines for the treatment of depression. They generally changes the composition of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Antidepressants can be classified on the basis of how they affect the chemicals presents in our body, which are the main cause of depression. On the basis of these chemicals, the antidepressants can be [...]
Prozac is one of the most successful drugs of all time. Since its introduction as an antidepressant more than 20 years ago, Prozac has been prescribed to more than 54 million people around the world, and prevented untold amounts of suffering.
But the success of Prozac hasn’t simply transformed the treatment of depression: it has also [...]
Drugs used to treat depression are some of the most prescribed drugs on the market today. These particular drugs work on balancing or helping the brain to create more neurotransmitters which are basically chemicals that help to relay messages from one nerve to another. The body uses the amino acids found in protein to produce [...]
The secret of depression is that it is a none life threatening condition being treated by the medical industry with mood alternating drugs which can threaten you life, even destroy your life and are very profitable for them. None life threatening means that the depression will not directly cause your body to not function and [...]
Everything occurs with a reason and that’s an established fact. It has been emphasized in many subjects in school and many other places that there’s always something called ’cause and effect’ of any disease or situation; and one just can’t take place without the other.
So what are the cause and effect of bipolar disorder? The [...]
Nowadays we are quick to relate depression as a consequence to the intricacies and personal disasters unfolding in the modern world. And while said assumption holds wisdom, depression is still a medical condition triggered by biological factors more than the environmental causes that are often linked with it. Individuals going through bouts of depression have [...]