Word: zoloft
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...wayward biology as well. In a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month, researchers found abnormal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain, in women who had been free of bulimia for at least a year. That may help explain why drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, which affect serotonin, have allowed a lot of bulimics to stop bingeing. Unfortunately, the pills don't work as well for anorexia. Nor do they offer a simple one-stop cure. Health-care workers must re-educate their patients in how to eat and think about food...
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Pregnant women probably needn't fret about antidepressants. Patients taking the newer kinds, like Paxil and Zoloft, don't seem to have any more miscarriages or babies with birth defects than those on a placebo...
MINDING PMS The antidepressant Zoloft may relieve severe premenstrual symptoms--even physical ones such as breast pain...
...follow self-imposed rituals to the absolute letter: making coffee in a way that never varies, driving around Los Angeles along the same route every day. A classic victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Goodman has been in treatment since he was seven, without much change. Now he is on Zoloft. "Before the medicine," he says, "it was like living in hell...
...growing awareness of serotonin's central role in mood and emotion has been paralleled--and in some cases driven--by a boom in drugs that target serotonin more or less specifically. Among them are such popular antidepressants as Elavil, Prozac, Zoloft and the hot new herbal medication St. John's wort; powerful appetite suppressants including Redux and fenfluramine; and antipsychotics such as clozapine. Like every other drug, the ones that zero in on serotonin have side effects. Elavil makes people sleepy. Zoloft can trigger headache and nausea. Zoloft and Prozac may cause sexual dysfunction. All these symptoms are annoying...