Bipolar disorder
Bipolar is also known as manic depressive disorder. Patients have periods of depression, alternate with manic periods. The following video is a very nice graphic ways to explain the disorder. Bipolar a graphical review: Serotonin syndrome & neuroleptic malignant syndrome....
Panic and anxiety disorder
Panic and anxiety disorder are very common. The follow review will help medical professionals to understand more about them. Patients tend to have symptoms suggesting of cardiac, neurological and rheumatologic diseases. They end up receiving numerous testing and treatments from different specialists without benefit. Other topics Illness anxiety disorder...
Antidepressants
A quick reference of the commonly used “antidepressants”. More appropriately, these medications should be called Serotonin agonist....
Depression
Treatment of Unipolar depression Depression is a very common medical problem, prevalence is over 10% of the population. When patient has other medical symptoms such as headache, chest pain, shortness of breath, soft tissue pain, low energy, poor sleep, weakness, numbness, they will be seen by a variety of...
SNRI
SNRI Serotonin-Norepihephrine reuptake inhibitor Little or no cholinergic or histaminergic effect Duloxetine, Venlafaxine, Desyenlafaxine has more inhibition of Serotonin uptake. Levomilnacipran preferentially block reuptake of norepinephrine Duloxetine (Cymbalta) Highly protein bound Mainly cleared by liver, <1% excreted in urine. Avoid in liver disease, and CrCl <30 Available in generic...