Paroxetine

Patients with MDD taking paroxetine may undergo greater personality change.

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Medscape (12/23, Cassels) reported that, according to a study published in the Dec. issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, “patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) taking paroxetine underwent greater personality change than those taking placebo, including a significant reduction in neuroticism and a marked increase in extraversion, even after controlling for [...]

Popular Antidepressants: How They Stack Up

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Researchers Rank 12 Common Antidepressants on Efficacy, Acceptability
To rate the 12 antidepressants studied, researchers used two separate measures. The first was efficacy — or how likely patients were to experience the desired effects of the drug. The second was acceptability — the likelihood that a patient would continue using a drug for the duration of [...]