Depression affects millions of Americans and antidepressants are relatively common. We talked to a psychiatrist to find out how they work.

Antidepressants can be an effective treatment for depression in many cases. Here's how to know if they might work for you.

How SSRIs Work To understand how SSRIs work, let’s back up a minute. First, what is an SSRI drug, and what does SSRI stand for?

When Dr Mark Horowitz, an Australian psychiatrist and researcher based in London, tried to slowly come off the medication he had been taking since his twenties, he suffered insomnia, panic attacks and ...

The ensuing discussion has boiled over into a full-on debate, pitting mainstream psychiatry against a minority of researchers who don’t think antidepressants actually work.

RFK Jr. falsely links antidepressants with school shooters, heroin. But what are SSRIs and is it safe for kids to take them?

How do SSRIs like Prozac, Lexapro really work? Ask a fruit fly by Eric Williamson, University of Virginia Credit: Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications ...

The next logical question to ask is why antidepressants do seem to work. The frequently taught “chemical imbalance” model—at least where serotonin is concerned—may not be true.

SSRI antidepressants normally take a few weeks before any showing mental health benefits, but how come it takes so long? Now a study from a group of clinicians and scientists provides the first ...

The reason that antidepressants can be used for anxiety disorders is that depression and anxiety share a common pathological mechanism. That is to say that in both of these disorders, there is not ...

Keep reading to learn how SSRI drugs work, the different types of SSRIs, the side effects of SSRI drugs and more. How SSRIs Work To understand how SSRIs work, let’s back up a minute.

SSRIs work in tandem with other psychotherapies Prescribing medications is never the first step in treating children and adolescents, Slattery said.