The study, based on a database of more than 200,000 Quebec residents aged 65 and older, showed statistical relationships between a diagnosis of cataracts or cataract surgery and the class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), as well as between cataracts and specific drugs within that class. The researchers say that the study [...]

Women who take strategic serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth prematurely as women who do not take the drugs, according to a study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine and funded by the Danish Medical Research Council.

Antidepressant treatments usually seem to need three to four weeks to become effective. Therefore, the finding of treatments with a swifter onset could be a chief objective of biological psychiatry. The first drug discovered to generate quick in mood appears to be the NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health [...]

The antidepressant bupropion may hold promise for improving symptoms in younger women diagnosed with so-called hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a study suggests. The disorder, called HSDD for short, is diagnosed when a person has a persistently low interest in sex, and that disinterest is causing personal distress or relationship problems. In the new study, Iranian [...]

Congress is worried that antidepressant drugs may be causing more suicides among members of the military than they prevent. But a University of Utah dean told lawmakers Wednesday that the benefits of such drugs far outweigh their risks. M. David Rudd, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the U., also said [...]