Prozac is a brand name for fluoxetine, a drug primarily used to treat conditions such as depression, eating disorders, premenstrual mood disorder and anxiety disorders.
Fluoxetine stimulates the brain’s levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin; inadequate amounts of that chemical are linked to depression. The medicine blocks unused serotonin from being absorbed by a nerve cell, sending […]
Their rooms are a mess, their trophies line the walls, and both have profiles on MySpace.com. Stephen and Jacob Meszaros seem like typical teenagers until their mother offers a glimpse into the family’s medicine cabinet.
Bottles of psychiatric medications fill the shelves. Stephen, 15, takes the antidepressants Zoloft and Desyrel for depression, the anticonvulsant Lamictal to […]
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22 — Research has challenged the conventional wisdom that depressed patients need three to four weeks to respond to antidepressant medication and that any earlier response is due to the placebo effect, said an investigator here.
Measurable non-placebo responses may occur during the first week of treatment, studies published last year suggest, said […]
So now they’re putting air bags on airplanes. An innovation that experts say could have saved dozens of lives in the last 20 years, had they been in place.
And yet. There’s something disturbing about them, too. Maybe because, after the kind of airplane crashes we worry about, they always end up picking the victims out […]
There’s something about new country music that’s always bothered me.
I can’t stand listening to the stuff.
I don’t have a problem with old country songs because they’re genuinely rustic and refreshingly honest. They’re about lyin’ and cheatin’ and drinkin’ at the honkytonk after workin’ at the ranch all day.
And those old country singers are convincing not […]
America “hearts” Jonathan Adler. The potter-turned-designer-turned-cheeky taste pooh-bah has become a national design mascot.
He can put breasts on a vase and we’ll buy it; turn a giraffe into a lamp, and modern moms want it for the nursery; slap “Prozac” on a jar, sell it for $78, and we all sigh, “J’adore.”
He makes rugs and […]