antidepressant Definition
anti·depres·sant (---dē pres′ənt, ---di-)
adjective
Psychiatry designating or of any drug used primarily to treat emotional depression
noun
an antidepressant drug
antidepressant Usage Examples
Converse of object
- prescribe: You may be prescribed an antidepressant which could help you to help yourself by giving you some power to make changes in your life.
- compare: Systematic review The review used an extensive search strategy for randomized double blind studies comparing antidepressants with placebo, or with other drug treatments.
- take: The number of people taking antidepressants has more than doubled in the past 10 years.
Adjective modifier
- tricyclic: Also in the 1950s, tricyclic antidepressants appeared on the scene.
- prescribed: These remedies shouldn't be taken at the same time as any prescribed antidepressants.
- herbal: However, when people pick up herbal antidepressants, they need to know that these preparations are safe and effective.
- mild: He gave me a prescription for a mild antidepressant.
- conventional: Like conventional antidepressants, homeopathic remedies can help some people recover from depression.
- related: Meanwhile, the number of tricyclic and related antidepressants proliferated, albeit to little effect.
Modifies a noun
- imipramine: The tricyclic antidepressant imipramine reduces bowel activity and may be helpful when diarrhea is the significant problem.
- medication: For each winter more patients used lights than used antidepressant medication.
- withdrawal: Physicians ' knowledge of antidepressant withdrawal effects: a survey.
- drug: For example, some antidepressant drugs may trigger seizures in some people with epilepsy.
- tablet: In some cases, antidepressant tablets may be helpful.
- prescription: The cost of antidepressant prescriptions in England has risen by more than 2,000 per cent over the last twelve years.
Noun used with modifier
- inhibitor: Citalopram must not be taken at the same time as monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressants ( MAOIs ).
- prescription: St John's Wort appears to take longer than prescription antidepressants to reach maximum effect.
- depression: In moderate to severe depression antidepressants are suitable treatment and they are as effective as psychological intervention.
Preposition: in
pain: An example follows, a systematic review of antidepressants in neuropathic pain.
Preposition: for
depression: Depression, antidepressants for children Depression: Prozac for eight year olds?
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