Medicine » Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System

Effects of Antidepressants

Edited by Ru-Band Lu, ISBN 978-953-51-0663-0, Hard cover, 194 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published June 29, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/2268

Over the last fifty years, many studies of psychiatric medication have been carried out on the basis of psychopharmacology. At the beginning, researchers and clinicians found the unexpected effectiveness of some medications with therapeutic effects in anti-mood without knowing the reason. Next, researchers and clinicians started to explore the mechanism of neurotransmitters and started to gain an understanding of how mental illness can be. Antidepressants are one of the most investigated medications. Having greater knowledge of psychopharmacology could help us to gain more understanding of treatments. In total ten chapters on various aspects of antidepressants were integrated into this book to help beginners interested in this field to understand depression.