Essays Tagged: "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor"
Prozac-Mania
oping with problems? Prozac and the related antidepressants, such as Paxil and Zoloft, are known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). They prevent brain cells from re-absorbing used se ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Effects of Serotonin on the Mind and Body.
person's serotonin levels. A group of drugs that specifically target serotonin are called SSRIs or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. Serotonin is now believed to be involved in depression and ... the others, has no active metabolites, moves through the body the fastest, and is highly serotonin-selective. All the SSRIs cause insomnia which can be overcome by taking the drug in the morning or b ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Clinical Depression: a Legitimate Physical Illness.
ork with the chemistry of the brain, attempting to repair the imbalances that cause the depression. Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRI's), a group which includes the brand names Prozac, Pa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Antidepressants.
bnormal appetite, and sleep disturbance. A group of drugs that target serotonin are called SSRIs or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. Some of the big names are Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. Becaus ... axil is unlike the other anti-depressants in that it has no active metabolites, is highly serotonin-selective and moves through the body the fastest. Sertraline, (Zoloft), is used to treat depression, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Depression Story, Interview.
, some of the messages don't get through.Hence the success of medications, such as Prozac, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Put simply, what they do is prevent neurons' recept ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Dysthymia Could be Caused by Biological Factors: A Truth or a Myth?
and lower "platelet MAO activity" in dysthymic patients than that in control, and low pre-treatment serotonin levels was associated with high depression rates. (cite, p.). Furthermore, patients respon ... o the treatment were also found to have significantly lower pre-treatment but higher post-treatment serotonin levels compared to patients who didn't respond to the treatment. They have significantly d ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Prozac - What is it?
n the papers, heard about it at the office, but what is Prozac? Prozac is an anti-depressant in the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) family. Prozac was first introduced in 1987 when the ... and bulimia nervosa.Prozac, which bares the chemical name "fluoxetine hydrochloride," was the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor to be patented and released (Fig 1A). Since the launch of Pro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
A basic essay discussing how the brain sends messages throughout the body, how chemicals affect the brain, and explains the left and right brain.
fect on the brain-When neurotransmitters are not balanced then medication can get levels even again.Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) such as Prozac blocks the reuptake of serotonin, allo ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
SRI approved for the treatment of OCD was called Anafranil. This was followed by medication called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) Prozac, Luvox, Paxil, and Zoloft. These SSRI's differ ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
ANTIDEPRESSANTS LINKED TO BLEEDING a small report on an article that I found on MSN.com
ting them into more intresting stories. In this case, msn reported "The problem may develop because serotonin appears to play a role in blood clotting and manipulating its levels may lead to abnormal ... REFERENCESEgberts, A., Heerdink, E. (2004). Association of Risk of Abnormal Bleeding with Degree of Serotonin Reuptake Inhibition by Antidepressants. Retrieved January 11, 2004, from http://www.pubmed ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Late-life depression
face (Montgomery, 2002). Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been tested empirically with regards to depress ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Ocd
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Medication used in Psycho- Gerontology Unit
drugs used for elderly include: Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), and Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Lithium also can be used to prevent relapse in recu ... the late 1980s, pharmaceutical companies developed a class of anti depressant drugs that were more selective in their action than the cyclic antidepressant. Deficiency of %- hydroxyl tryptamine (5- H ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
py and CBT. Although, these drugs may get rid of the symptoms they do not cure the disease. Mainly, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs), increase t ... icantly superior to desipramine in the reduction of OCD symptoms in eight-week trial, documenting a selective efficacy for SSRIs in OCD. A multicenter double-blind study be Greist (1992) investigated ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
This is a critical analysis paper that I wrote for an Abnormal Psychology class. It discusses the ineffectiveness and over-prescription of SSRIs such as Prozac.
within the human brain. The grasp of serotonin has brought about the development of SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, and other antidepress ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
DIATHESIS STRESS MODEL FOR MENTAL DISORDER
the common mental disorder. The technology of the 1980?s effected the emergence of Prozac and other Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI?s), yet one more class of antidepressants, these affec ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Combining Treatments in Psychiatric Illness
ve been shown between different kinds of antidepressant drug. 4 On average, people seem to tolerate selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) little more than older drugs, but this difference is ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Aging case study
s), quinidine-like actions (cardiac arrhythmias) and antihistamine effects(weight gain, drowsiness).Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI): Side effects include sexual dysfunction, nausea, ner ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Explain the biological explanations of one of more eating disorders.
e recently investigating the effects of some neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin due to evidence that sufferers of anorexia and bulimia have abnormalities in their levels ... d bulimia have abnormalities in their levels of neurotransmitters. Jimerson et al (97) compared the serotonin function in patients with bulimia with a control group of healthy participants and found s ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Mental Illness
an inequality of definite neurotransmitters may occurring anxiety. It was stated that the chemical serotonin perform a main character in anxiety disorder patients. "Anxiety disorders as well have bee ... meticulous attention in probable imperfect genes that control precise neurotransmitters, including serotonin and dopamine.Furthermore, not only can genetics play a part in anxiety disorders, but fami ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine