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• n  a process of using up or consuming again
  psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters

• Nearly 40% of Army suicide victims in 2006 and 2007 took psychotropic drugs overwhelmingly, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac and Zoloft.
• They work by slowing the brain's absorption of the mood-enhancing neurotransmitter serotonin (thus the term selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor).
• Recent studies show that suicide rates among adolescents have fallen by about a third over the past decade in those countries that prescribe serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the .

• re-uptake

News & Articles

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• AANP Poster Presentation Explores Impact of Baseline Levels of BMI, hsCRP, and MTHFR on Effect of Adjunctive L ...
  An evaluation of the benefits of adjunctive L-methylfolate in patients stratified by specific biomarkers and genotypes who were poorly responding to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors will be the focus of an educational poster presentation at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference in Las Vegas.
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Rat Study Finds Long-term Use of Antidepressants May Hinder Treatment of PTSD, Some Learning
  New animal research suggests long-term use of a class of medicines used to commonly treat depression may have a downside by interfering with a technique used to treat fear and stress. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are antidepressants used to treat depression, as well as a range of anxiety disorders, and a number [...]
  June 13, 2013 - Psych Central
• Relist Watch
  John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted cases. If the last few days of torrential rains have left you feeling more gloomy than an amorphous blob in need of a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, Relist Watch is here as usual to cheer you up. Eventually. First we have to take care of the bad news. Yesterday marked the [...]
  June 12, 2013 - SCOTUSblog

Quotes

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• Paul Greengard in The Rockefeller University Newswire
  Our results show that the 5-HT 6 receptors play a large role in the antidepressant effects of serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac,says Greengard. "This suggests that if chemicals were developed that selectively activate the 5-HT 6...