Traditional antidepressants are considered "experimental" for treating bipolar depression in that none has been proven to be more effective than a placebo (sugar pill) in bipolar I disorder.

Someone may have a serious medical problem, such as heart disease or liver or kidney disease, that could make some antidepressants unsafe. The antidepressant could be ineffective for you or the ...

SSRI medications have come under scrutiny as of late, despite medical experts maintaining they're safe and effective.

The use of antidepressants has been linked to a 2% weight gain in patients who used this treatment at any point during a 6-year follow-up, according to a Spanish study. The authors suggest that ...

The effects of antidepressant exposure during early development can pass down through three generations of offspring—at least in zebrafish. A new study, published today (December 10) in PNAS, reveals ...

FRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Antidepressants appear to increase people’s risk of sudden cardiac death, a new study says. People taking the mood meds are more likely to die suddenly ...

Considering multiple brain imaging methods and processing the data with machine learning can better predict how a person with depression will respond to antidepressants, according to a March 31 study ...

We asked the experts to explain whether certain antidepressants have the potential to affect our ability to deal with heat. Here’s what they had to say. As someone who writes a lot about mental ...

SSRIs are a subsection of the larger class of antidepressants. Other antidepressants usually prescribed for depression, according to NYU Langone Health, include serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake ...