Posts Tagged 'SSRI'

A panel of psychiatrists charged with updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, is being criticized over delays, disorganization and secrecy, the Washington Post reports.

Some critics allege that panel members are too inclined to create an official diagnosis for symptoms or behaviors that don’t necessarily amount to mental disorders.

According to the report, the issue is important because the DSM plays an enormous role in diagnosing mental ...

In an entry for her blog “Child in Mind,” pediatrician Dr. Claudia Gold addresses the issue of pregnant women stopping antidepressants use because they’re concerned about birth defects.

Gold cites examples from the book Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up by Kaitlin Bell Barnett.

According to Gold, women who were started on the class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, have a difficult choice if and when they decide ...

The U.S. National Library of Medicine describes ventricular septal defect as one or more holes in the wall that separates the right and left ventricles of the heart.

It’s one of the most common heart defects that occurs before birth.

According to the National Library, the right and left ventricles of its heart are not separate before a baby is born, but a wall forms to separate the two ventricles ...

Kaitlin Bell Barnett, author of Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up, wrote a piece for Website PsychCentral about what she terms a “shocking lack of studies” concerning the relationship between antidepressant use and sexual dysfunction in young people.

Barnett writes that the drugs most famous for causing loss of libido and sexual dysfunction are the SSRI antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zoloft, which can cause loss of libido and problems with sexual arousal and orgasm.

Barnett points out that the connection between ...