Antidepressants:

Cipralex - Escitalopram: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipralex

www.ican.co.uk & www.ican.co.uk/content/welcomepage/default.aspx

You are about to enter the iCAN community, which means that Cipralex has been prescribed for you by your doctor to treat a depression.

The iCAN website is an interactive support tool.

It is designed to specifically provide patients being treated for depression with:

*support in between visits to your doctor
*information about depression and anxiety
*tools to monitor your progress, including a self rating scale and a private diary
*tips sent to you to help you along the way
*online interaction opportunities with other people on the road to recovery
*access to an independent panel of experts who will answer your questions
*the option to share your experiences with the iCAN community
*anonymity which is protected by a user name and pass word of your choice at registration

Cipralex is licenced in the UK for treating depression, panic disorder, social phobia and generalised anxiety disorder.

It may be a few weeks after beginning treatment with Cipralex that you feel any improvement. Continue to take Cipralex even if it is some time before you start to feel better.

Likewise, if you begin to feel better, continue to take Cipralex as prescribed by your doctor.

Do not make any changes without first consulting your doctor.

Experts in the field of treating depression have designed this service and many of them have contributed with good advice from many years of experience in counselling patients.

We wish you a successful journey on the road to recovery.

Cipralex - Escitalopram Offical Website: www.cipralex.com & www.lexapro.com & www.ican.co.uk

What Are Tricyclic Antidepressants?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclics

Tricyclic antidepressants (abbreviation TCA) are a class of antidepressant drugs first used in the 1950s.

They are named after the drugs' molecular structure, which contains three rings of atoms (compare tetracyclic antidepressant).

What Are Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAOIs

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of powerful antidepressant drugs prescribed for the treatment of depression.

They are particularly effective in treating atypical depression, and have also shown efficacy in helping smokers to quit.

Due to potentially lethal dietary and drug interactions, MAOIs had been reserved as a last line of defense, used only when other classes of antidepressant drugs (for example selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants) have been tried unsuccessfully.

Recently, however, a patch form of the drug selegiline, called Emsam, was developed.

It was approved for use by the FDA on February 28, 2006.

When applied transdermally the drug does not enter the gastro-intestinal system as it does when taken orally, thereby decreasing the dangers of dietary interactions associated with MAOI pills.

Therapeutic Use: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAOIs#Therapeutic_use

In the past they were prescribed for those resistant to tricyclic antidepressant therapy, but newer MAOIs are now sometimes used as first-line therapy.

They are also used for treating agoraphobia and social anxiety. Currently, the availability of selegiline and moclobemide provides a safer alternative, although not always as effective as the old types.

MAO inhibitors can also be used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease (by affecting dopaminergic neurons), as well as an alternative for migraine prophylaxis.

www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/depression/...nhibitors_000101.htm

www.mayoclinic.com/health/maois/MH00072

What Are Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin-norepine...e_reuptake_inhibitor

Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs) are a class of antidepressant used in the treatment of clinical depression and other affective disorders.

They are also sometimes used to treat anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and chronic neuropathic pain.

They act upon two neurotransmitters in the brain that are known to play an important part in mood, namely, serotonin and norepinephrine.

This can be contrasted with the more widely-used selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which act only on serotonin.

List Of Antidepressants: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antidepressants

This is a list of antidepressants by drug group.

Generic drug names are listed first with trade names in brackets.

Anti-depressant drugs may be augmented in the treatment of depression or other mood disorders by non-antidepressant drugs (such as lithium carbonate) which have been shown to boost the antidepressant effect of a main antidepressant treatment.

www.indepression.com/list-of-antidepressants.html

www.answers.com/topic/list-of-antidepressants

www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyan...tantidepressants.asp