Depression medications affectthe concentration of certain neurochemicals in the brain, and/or their receptor sites. The word "antidepressant" actually refers to several different kinds of medication.

Are Zoloft and Lexapro the best antidepressants? A recent study from Europe says so. The study, published online last month in the medical journal Lancet, compared 12 newer generation antidepressant ...

(Reuters) - A sweeping government study of thousands of women has found links between the older antidepressants Prozac and Paxil and birth defects, but has cleared other popular treatments in the ...

image: This image shows Anne M. Andrews, University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences. A UCLA team has studied early developmental exposure to two different antidepressants, Prozac and ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a class of antidepressants that increase the amount of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. SSRIs like Lexapro, Zoloft and Prozac are the most ...

Lexapro, Paxil and Cymbalta carry a higher risk of packing on pounds than Zoloft, while Wellbutrin users are less likely to gain weight, according to a new study of eight popular antidepressants. Siam ...

Is one antidepressant more effective than another? I confronted this question last September when I had breakfast with one of psychiatry's leading scholars and administrators. He was complaining about ...

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 ...

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute (HPHCI) researchers analyzed the weights of more than 183,000 adult antidepressant users six months, a year and two years after they started taking the drugs. At ...