How to Use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in a Sentence

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

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  • And some of the risks attributed to the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI, are similar to those found in children exposed to their mother’s psychiatric illness.
    Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
  • Many of us are also looking for ways to increase serotonin without taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, known as an SSRI.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That means that drugs such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, used to treat psychiatric disorders, are likely to function very differently in humans than in mice.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
  • That is different from many common antidepressants, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, which take longer to yield effects and that many patients can end up taking for a lifetime.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The first-line treatment for PMDD is often antidepressants, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
    Tara Mandarano, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The drug, fluvoxamine, is an early selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor — a common type of antidepressant, similar to Prozac or Zoloft — developed in the 1980s.
    Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • With hot temperatures sweeping the country this summer, people who take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—often prescribed to treat depression—may want to be extra cautious.
    Cathy Cassata, Health, 28 June 2024
  • Sertraline is a type of antidepressant called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
    K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2015
  • The most prescribed medication is a type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But some high-profile research has raised doubts about the science behind selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of medications frequently prescribed to treat depression and anxiety.
    Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the infants’ mothers had depression, and were being treated with anti-depressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), while others with depression were not treated.
    Alice Park, Time, 9 Apr. 2018
  • About 10% of pregnant women in the U.S. receive prescriptions for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the family of antidepressant medications that include Prozac and Zoloft.
    Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
  • My doctor prescribed Celexa, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, for anxiety.
    Health.com, 28 May 2020
  • The main group of such medications is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as antidepressants.
    Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Flash forward to today, and there are now several types of antidepressants available, from the earliest tricyclics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors to the ubiquitous modern-day selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
    Dean Burnett, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Escitalopram is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which increase your levels of serotonin to help maintain mental balance.
    Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 May 2018
  • Ibogaine, in particular, might affect the same serotonin transporter that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) target to treat depression.
    Ella Weaver, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This includes some anti-seizure medications, asthma drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs, the most commonly prescribed kind of antidepressant), and more.
    Alison Goldman, SELF, 21 May 2018
  • The drug is fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor—an antidepressant.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
  • That would seem to make sense for antidepressive effects, given that many popular antidepressants also alter serotonin signaling (such as in SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors).
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Among those given medication, anxiety symptoms declined the most and remission was most likely with antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
    Linda Searing, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Yet anxiety can be treated with antidepressants like Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, combined with specialized forms of cognitive behavioral therapy.
    Paula Span, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Treatment methods like cognitive behavioral therapy may help, and many drugs, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, are meant to relieve panic attack symptoms, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Tetrahydroharmine is also a weak selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, another class of antidepressant drug.
    Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Citalopram is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant medication, which are the most common type of antidepressant prescribed.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • Among the options: hormone replacement therapy, low-dose selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), gabapentin, clonidine, and fezolinetant.
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 June 2024
  • The most common antidepressants, S.S.R.I’s (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), can flatten emotions.
    Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Your doctor may prescribe a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or another type of anti-anxiety medication.
    Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, my psychiatrist prescribed a different type of medication, known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors).
    NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Fluvoxamine, sold in the U.S. as Luvox, is an inexpensive selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that’s prescribed to manage mental health conditions like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2021

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