Topics: Antidepressants | Sexual Side Effects | SSRIs

Sexual side effects on SSRIs are so common that psychiatrist David Healy once argued these drugs more reliably lower libido than treat depression. Yet the problem isn’t limited to SSRIs, and it’s not unmanageable.

Topics: Antidepressants | Depression | Nutrition | Registered Articles

We have a decade of observational evidence linking the quality of people’s diets to their risk for depression. Those findings were pretty consistent across countries, cultures, and age groups: A healthy diet is associated with an approximately 30% reduction in the risk for depression and a 40% improvement in cognition.

This page has additional materials related to the dietary suggestions made in the Expert Q&A "An Antidepressant Diet." We don’t know exactly how the diet works, but there are several possibilities.

Topics: Antipsychotics | Cognition

Unlike the typical antipsychotics, atypicals improve both cognitive and psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, so they must have procognitive effects of their own that can be harnessed in mood disorders, ADHD, and even dementia. The problem is that the data show the opposite.

Topics: Research Updates

Depression is a risk factor for dementia, but can antidepressants change that risk? Some, like paroxetine (Paxil), have anticholinergic properties that can impair cognition. This study looked at what that means for the risk of dementia.

Topics: CME Post-Test

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