Citalopram

Care management reduces depression and suicidal thoughts in older primary care patients

...g to accepted practice guidelines, monitored treatment response and provided follow-up over two years. Practice guidelines included the antidepressant citalopram (Celexa), with the option of other drugs or psychotherapy. After two years, nearly 90 percent of patients in the PROSPECT care management group had...

Lexapro Loses First-Line Position for the Treatment of Major Depression

...o may have lost its first-line dominance because of the increasing frequency of step therapy restrictions requiring patients to first try therapy with citalopram (Forest Laboratories' Celexa, generics) before being reimbursed for Lexapro. The new report entitled Treatment Algorithms in Major Depression a...

Forest Laboratories, Inc. Announces FDA Approval of Lexapro(R) for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in Adolescents

...d study, children and adolescents 7 to 17 years of age treated with racemic citalopram 20-40 mg/day showed statistically significant greater mean improvement from... studies were conducted: one Lexapro study in patients ages 7 to 17 and one citalopram study in adolescents. Neither study demonstrated efficacy on the primary ef...

Zoloft, Lexapro the Best of Newer Antidepressants

...luded more than 25,000 patients with major depression to come to this conclusion. The drugs tested in the trials were bupropion (Wellbutrin/Zyban), citalopram (Celexa), duloxetine (Cymbalta), escitalopram, fluoxetine (Prozac), fluvoxamine (Luvox), milnacipran (Savella), mirtazapine (Remeron), paroxetine (Pax...

Pregnancy study finds strong association between two antidepressants and heart anomalies

... heart anomaly and we are keen to see further research in this area. "We should point out that there is no evidence of any increased risk posed by citalopram and sertraline, which belong to the same group of antidepressants." The authors say that it is important that women are aware of these findings, es...

Medication may prevent depression in patients with head and neck cancer

... Taking the antidepressant citalopram before beginning treatment for head and neck cance...ned to receive 40 milligrams of the antidepressant citalopram daily and 13 were randomly assigned to take placeb... citalopram, the authors write. No patients in the citalopram group became suicidal, compared with two in the pl...

Several Therapies Show Promise for Vascular Depression

...ed with impairment in specific frontal lobe functions. The same team also found that patients with major depression treated with the antidepressant citalopram were less likely to recover if they had cardiovascular disease or did poorly on a test of cognition requiring frontal lobe function. They also foun...

Treating SSRI-resistant depression

...r (SSRI) antidepressant: either switching to a second SSRI or to a non-SSRI antidepressant. Some common SSRI antidepressants are fluoxetine (Prozac), citalopram (Celexa) and sertraline (Zoloft), while examples of a few common non-SSRI antidepressants are venlafaxine (Effexor) and buproprion (Wellbutrin, Zyban)...

Comparison of venlafaxine and SSRIs in the treatment of depression

...e reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), like venlafaxine (Effexor), and the older selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), like fluoxetine (Prozac) and citalopram (Celexa), to determine if one provides an overall greater benefit. To do so, the authors performed a meta-analysis, by pooling the results of 34 do...

Genetic difference predicts antidepressant response

...tances out of the brain compromise the effectiveness of the antidepressants citalopram (trade name Celexa) and venlafaxine (Effexor). The researchers said thei...ressants to the animals. The researchers found that brain concentrations of citalopram and venlafaxine were regulated by P-gpthat the antidepressants were thus su...

Citalopram in Medical Technology

March 2009 Mayo Clinic Health Letter Highlights Knee Repair Surgery, Anxiety Disorder and Preventing Blood Clots

...oice often is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). This category includes fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft) and citalopram (Celexa). Other antidepressants that may be considered include duloxetine (Cymbalta) and venlafaxine (Effexor). These drugs can be highly effective, b...

DOV 21,947 Demonstrates Significant Body Weight and BMI Reductions in Drug- Compliant Subjects in Phase Ib Clinical Study

... a Phase II clinical trial with DOV 216,303 for the treatment of depression, patients who completed two weeks of treatment in both the DOV 216,303 and citalopram groups demonstrated reductions from baseline (p<0.0001) in the total HAM-D scores. In both groups, the reductions from baseline in the HAM-D scores we...

Study of Drug Therapy for Compulsive Buying Yields a Puzzle, Stanford Researcher Says

...tion of that trial, these 15 patients were randomly assigned to take either citalopram or a placebo without knowing which one they were taking. Of seven patients ...oratories, which makes and markets escitalopram under the name Lexapro, and citalopram under the name Celexa. Koran has served as a paid speaker for Forest Labora...

Citalopram in Biological Definition

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

...eg; ) Sertraline (trade name: Zoloft ® , Lustral ® ) Escitalopram oxalate (trade name: Lexapro ® , Cipralex ® ) citalopram (trade name: Celexa ® , Cipramil ® , Emocal ® , Sepram ® ) Fluvoxamine maleate (trade name: Luvox ® , Faverin &r...