Crossword clues for antidepressant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, from anti- + depressant.
Wiktionary
a. Preventing or counteracting depression. n. An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
WordNet
n. any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects [syn: antidepressant drug]
Wikipedia
Antidepressants are drugs used for the treatment of major depressive disorder and other conditions, including dysthymia, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and, in some cases, dysmenorrhoea, snoring, migraine, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction, dependence, and sleep disorders. They can be used alone or in combination with other medications but only when prescribed.
The most important classes of antidepressants are the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), reversible monoamine oxidase A inhibitors (rMAO-A inhibitors), tetracyclic antidepressants (TeCAs), and noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant (NaSSAs). St John's wort is also used in the treatment of depression.
Usage examples of "antidepressant".
His medicine chest was filled with antidepressants and sleeping pills.
As James Surowiecki has noted, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks or antidepressants that people will take every day forever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter.
The drug Echols took was amitriptyline, an antidepressant sedative that must be prescribed by a physician.
I wanted to put Benton on a mild antidepressant but he would not let me.
On Tuesday, June 8, four days after his arrest, Damien took an overdose of Elavil, his antidepressant medication.
There, he was hustled into a single-man cell, and his antidepressant medication was immediately stopped.
Damien would later maintain that getting off the antidepressant drugs was the best thing that happened to him during his first year at the prison.
I will need to keep her on antidepressant medication and mild tranquilizers for a while yet, to help lessen some of the more painful symptoms.
The antidepressant took at least ten days to be effective and had no immediate effect on his condition.
November 13, 1989 Miami poll workers ought to hand out antidepressants at the voting booths Tuesday morning.
Page had a compulsive shopping problem, an addiction severe enough to warrant antidepressants and group therapy.
Sellers recommended heavy dosages of drugs, phenobarbital, antidepressants, and, eventually, shock treatment.
Prozac and some of the older antidepressants took almost a month to leave the system, so those people slipped into the fray more slowly than those on Zoloft or Paxil or Wellbutrin, which was flushed from the system in only a day or two, leaving the deprived with symptoms resembling a low-grade flu, then a scattered disorientation akin to a temporary case of attention deficit disorder, and, in some, a rebound of depression that dropped on them like a smoky curtain.
At least the antidepressants all seem to be capable of inhibiting the action of the enzyme monoamine oxidase.
Whatever, he never needed any neuroleptics, just some antidepressants.