A new review of antidepressant withdrawal effects – written by academics, many of whom have close ties to drug manufacturers – risks underestimating the potential harms to long-term antidepressant ...

A “deprescribing” movement is building up in the psychiatry field, aimed at helping patients reduce or stop their ...

A new review of existing studies suggests that most people who stop taking antidepressants experience mild or no withdrawal symptoms. Some experts argue that the review underestimates withdrawal risks ...

Anyone who watches enough television is familiar with advertisements for prescription medicine: first the pictures of happy, healthy people whose joy in life has been restored by the medication, and ...

A recent Lancet Psychiatry study revealed that around 15% or one in six patients who discontinue using antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms. Antidepressants like desvenlafaxine, venlafaxine, ...

Discontinuing medications can be associated with withdrawal symptoms. This is true when stopping antidepressants. What are these symptoms and how common are they? These questions are addressed in a ...

Sudden changes in the dose of antidepressant medications can cause withdrawal symptoms. The symptoms can last several weeks. Antidepressants are useful for treating a variety of mental health ...

The incidence of antidepressant discontinuation symptoms appears to be much lower than was previously thought, results from a new meta-analysis of studies assessing this issue showed. After accounting ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis has demonstrated that approximately 15% of individuals experience withdrawal symptoms, such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability, when ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Incidence rates of antidepressant discontinuation symptoms included 0.31 for antidepressants and 0.17 for ...

A new review of studies on antidepressant discontinuation suggests that withdrawal is rarely severe — but experts say the picture is more complex. A new review of existing studies suggests that most ...