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Antidepressants can be an important tool for treating symptoms of depression, but they don't work right away. Most antidepressants don't provide instant relief of symptoms related to depression, ...

Mental health is no longer a hush-hush topic. More and more people are opening up about their mental health struggles, whether it's depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or obsessive thoughts. And as ...

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This is the first installment 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 ...

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 ...

Why do antidepressants take weeks to work when they change brain chemistry in hours? Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have identified a specific ...

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.