Antidepressant Drug

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  One Direction's Liam Payne Took Cocaine, Alcohol, Antidepressant Before Death

  One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday.

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  Antidepressants May Cause 'Emotional Blunting', Claims New Study

  Escitalopram directly lessens how people react to both good and bad outcomes, but it has no impact on other ways of thinking or acting.

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  Can DNA Tests Help Prescribe Antidepressants?

  Doctors increasingly use information about genes to evaluate potential risk for some diseases, such as BRCA genes that are linked to breast cancer, and to determine the best drug treatment for diseases, including acute leukemia and HIV. But using pharmacogenetics to help treat depression remains controversial.

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  Antidepressants May Up Mortality Risk In Lung Disease Patients

  Antidepressant drugs can cause sleepiness, vomiting and can negatively impact immune system cells, which increases the likelihood of infections, breathing issues, and other respiratory adverse events, especially in patients with COPD.

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  Certain Antidepressants May Up The Risk Of Developing Dementia; Eat These Foods To Cut The Risk

  According to a study published in the BMJ Medical Journal, certain type of common drug may increase the risk of developing dementia

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  Here's Why You Shouldn't Take Antidepressants During Pregnancy?

  Mothers who opted for anti-depressants during their pregnancy may have put their children at a risk of autism according to a new study.

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  Two-Drug Combo Can Treat Depression in Elderly

  An antidepressant drug, if taken along with a antipsychotic pill, can better help the elderly with hard-to-treat depression, a clinical trial including researchers from Washington University in St Louis has indicated.

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  While the Psychiatrists Argue About Antidepressants, I'll Keep Taking Them

  Therapy alone is often not enough. I, as a patient, told this to a debate between psychiatrists on mental health treatment, but it mostly fell on deaf ears.

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  Antidepressant tied to heart defect

  Women who use the antidepressant bupropion during early pregnancy have an increased risk of having a baby with a particular type of heart defect.

• Antidepressants linked with preterm birth

  Using antidepressant drugs during pregnancy may be related with an increased risk of preterm birth and consequently a lower fetal age at delivery.

• Antidepressant for mood disorders

  The atypical antipsychotic drug aripiprazole enhances the response to antidepressants in patients with treatment-resistant major depression.

• Withdrawal in newborns with pregnancy anti-depressant use

  The prenatal use of antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can cause withdrawal reactions and convulsions in newborns.

• Cigarette smoking affects the brain

  Cigarette smoking may affect the human brain similar to the effect of drugs used to treat depression. The study was carried out at the University of Mississippi Medical Centre in Jackson, USA. They examined a part of the brain that is associated with depression, known as the locus coeruleus. They compared a portion of this brain tissue taken afte...