What do Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft have in common? All belong to a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and all have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants may experience delays in postpartum breast milk production, researchers said. Delayed secretory activation occurred in 87.5% ...

As someone who’s lived in Phoenix for a few years, I’m pretty familiar with pavement-scorching, triple-digit temps. And while I can get as heat-fatigued as the next person, for the most part, I just ...

Roughly 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants. The most common type is SSRIs, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft. But what happens when you stop taking them ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects approximately 280 million people globally and is one of the leading causes of disability and low quality of life. One in every three people suffering from MDD ...

A single dose of a popular class of psychiatric drug used to treat depression can alter the brain’s architecture within hours, even though most patients usually don’t report improvement for weeks, a ...

A recent issue of Sexual Medicine Reviews includes an extensive field review on post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a medical condition tied to stopping SSRI and SNRI antidepressants that was ...

Escitalopram is a selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor or SSRI, one of the most often prescribed types of antidepressants. As their name suggests, SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of serotonin, the ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are one of the most commonly used antidepressants. They are usually chosen as the first-line treatment for clinical depression because of their better ...

In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.