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...doctor. Just last month, researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that binge eaters who took the antidepressant Celexa for six weeks decreased the number of binge episodes they experienced. Only 40 patients were studied, so the results are still preliminary. Other antidepressant drugs, like Prozac and Zoloft have already been shown effective in cases of binge eating's relative, bulimia. Most likely they work because antidepressants normalize levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that doctors think may be involved in controlling appetite. Practitioners also report success with cognitive behavior therapy, alone or in combination with medication. The therapy focuses...
That's why the National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the drug fluvoxamine, part of the class of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. For eight weeks, researchers tracked 128 children, ages 6 to 17, who had been diagnosed with serious anxiety disorders. When they were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed any improvement. When they were given Luvox, a brand of fluvoxamine, 76% showed swift and substantial improvement...
...board in her practice. "Every patient comes in and talks about him," she says. "A lot of them ask what I think about the therapy sessions." The proportion of men seeking therapy has been rising, says psychiatrist Michael Blumenfield, partly because guys are learning that drugs like Prozac and Zoloft are "more effective, with less side effects" than older antidepressants. The Sopranos may be making men more comfortable with therapy for another reason: no matter what Dr. Melfi hears, she keeps her mouth shut...
...office. Learning that other psychiatrists were encountering a similar influx, he recruited doctors at nearly a dozen medical centers to join him in a clinical trial of the effectiveness of St. John's wort in combatting depression. With unrestricted funding from Pfizer, which makes both the prescription antidepressant Zoloft and an extract of St. John's wort, the doctors recruited 200 subjects, nearly two-thirds of them women in their 40s. All had suffered from major depression for at least four weeks. Some found it difficult to get out of bed or care for their children...
...soon to tell just yet. There's another study going on right now comparing St. John's Wort with Zoloft, and those results aren't out yet. But I do think overall that the public mood regarding herbal supplements is coming back to center. We're seeing a new era of caution; over the past couple of years we've seen that these "all natural" supplements can interact with traditional drugs and have very real side effects. So at this point, a little caution is definitely a good thing...