Word: prozac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Medical School called Ritalin "one of the raving successes in psychiatry." Parents everywhere are seeking a mandate from medicine, taking unmanageable children to doctors who tend with very little resistance to diagnose them as ADD and put them on a regular diet of Ritalin, sometimes supplementing the prescription with Prozac...
...Less anxiety for pregnant women on PROZAC: preschoolers who were exposed in utero to Prozac or tricyclic antidepressants like Elavil don't seem to suffer intellectual or behavioral impairment as a result--even if the moms used the drug during their entire pregnancy...
...filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result of the short gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible for being anxious than is the hemophiliac for his medical condition. The fault is not mine; it's in the genes. Not a character flaw but a genetic...
According to an article published last week in Science, researchers have discovered two variations in a gene that affects the way brain cells respond to serotonin (serotonin, of course, is the superstar neurotransmitter targeted by Prozac and other antidepressants). The gene comes in a short and a long version, and the study found that the short promotes fewer of the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption. The long promotes the creation of more such molecules. After giving personality tests to 505 individuals (who responded to such statements as "Frightening thoughts sometimes come into my head") and taking their blood for genetic...
...okayed the antidepressant Prozac to treat the eating disorder BULIMIA. Research indicates that in women who take the drug, the number of binge-eating episodes is reduced by two-thirds and vomiting sessions by one-half...