When older adults living in nursing homes are prescribed the pain medicine tramadol alongside certain antidepressants, their risk of seizures may go up, according to a study published in Neurology.

OCD treatment usually involves a combination of medication and exposure and response prevention therapy to control obsessions ...

In 2023, an estimated 11.4% of adult Americans took antidepressants. Here's how the class of medication can help depression symptoms.

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a class of antidepressants that increase the amount of the neurotransmitter ...

This is the first in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, has increased among college students since ...

Without robust long-term data, physicians and patients continue debating the severity and significance of SSRI withdrawal ...

Children whose mothers took antidepressants during pregnancy are not more likely to develop long-term anxiety or depression ...

By casting doubt on antidepressants and other well-studied drugs, our government health agencies are choosing minimal risk to ...

The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services are playing with women’s health. Over the ...

Drugs taken years—even decades—ago can leave lasting imprints on the gut microbiome, reshaping the community of microbes long after treatment stops. Scientists analyzing over 2,500 Estonian Biobank ...