High-speed magnetic resonance imaging scans produce effects in rats similar to the use of antidepressants, confirming observations made in human patients, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. The finding suggests that electromagnetic fields can affect brain biology, the team at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported.

“We found that when we administered the magnetic stimulation to the rats, we saw an antidepressant-like effect, the same effect as seen after administration of standard antidepressant drugs,” said William Carlezon, director of McLean’s Behavioral Genetics Laboratory.

The two justices ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia—which previously rejected the suits—to reconsider following the recent Supreme Court decision allowing such suits to be tried in state courts. The suits were filed by the family of a woman who committed suicide after taking Glaxo’s Paxil and a man who committed suicide after taking Pfizer’s Zoloft, said Bloomberg; both suits are among hundreds filed against drug makers. The justices also asked for reconsideration of a prior rejection of a false advertising suit involving AstraZeneca PLC’s Nexium anti-ulcer drug.

Relatively healthy women with severe depression are at increased risk for heart problems, including sudden cardiac death and fatal heart disease, a new study finds.

But even more startling is that the researchers suggest that some of the antidepressants used to treat these women might play a role in their increased heart risk.

Doctors from Columbia University in New York and the University of California at San Diego analyzed information provided by 63,469 women participating in the ongoing Nurses Health Study. Overall, they found that women with depression were more than twice as likely to experience sudden cardiac death, and 37 percent more likely to die of heart disease, compared to women without depression.

Antidepressants and psychological therapies, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), appear to provide relief from irritable bowel syndrome, at least in the short-term, according to published studies.

Antidepressants appear to help calm irritable bowels independently of any improvement in coexisting depression, the researchers report in the journal Gut. In an interview with Reuters Health, Dr. Alex C. Ford, from McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, said doctors “should consider” using antidepressants for people who fail other “first-line” therapies for irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, which may include cramping, diarrhea or constipation.

I have been treated for depression since I was 8, and I am now 30. I have tried numerous medications along with a ton of therapy. I am also a recovering alcoholic who is working the AA program. My problem lies in the fact that I am extremely sensitive to medications and of the 30+, I still have yet to find something that actually works. Lexapro seemed to work for a while, but I changed due to the sexual side effects being a problem. When I tried to restart taking it, I was overcome with anxiety. I was also taking 50mg of Serzone if that makes any difference.