06/03/2014
Yina Ma, a research scientist at Johns Hopkins, reported in Molecular Psychiatry , "Antidepressants act to normalize abnormal neural responses in depressed patients by increasing brain activity to positive stimuli and decreasing activity to negative stimuli in the emotional network and increasing engagement of the regulatory mechanisms in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex." For some background in thinking about antidepressants please follow my blog:
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Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed medications in psychiatric practice. There are six classes of antidepressants (NDRIs, NRIs, SNRIs, SSRIs,TCAs and MAOIs) which relate to either their mechanism of action or specific chemical structures. The ones that share a common chemical st…
