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Antidepressants - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Also used in Parkinsons
  - - - May cause confusion, hypertension, tremor, coma, death
      - Give 14 days washout after stopping MAOI before starting other antidepressants
    - - Cheese, venison, alcohol, broad beans
- - - - Therefore are cleaner with generally fewer side effects and better tolerated
    - - Modulate release of many other neurotransmitters (GABA, dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, acetylcholine)
        
        Influence aggression, anxiety, cognition, learning memory, mood and sleep
- - - - Work by blocking re-uptake into the nerve endings and increasing their levels in the pain control pathways
- - - - Depression
      - Neuropathic pain (diabetes, fibromyalgia)
      - Stress urinary incontinence
    - - Nausea, insomnia, dizziness
  - - - Major Depressive disorder
      - Anxiety
      - Panic
      - Social phobia
      - Treatment of resistant depression
- - - - Depression
      - Anxiety
      - PTSD
    - - Low dose causes drowsiness so best taken at night
      - Higher dose more stimulant effect