Biochemistry is the study of how chemical work involving things in this case (humans). Biochemistry emerged as a separate discipline when scientist combined biology with organic, inorganic, or physical chemistry. http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/whatchemistsdo/careers/biochemistry.htm/
Depression is a form of sorrow. When you don’t care for anything or anyone. There are different types of medicine that treat depression. Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are some of the first antidepressants used to treat depression. They primarily affect the levels of two chemical messengers (neurotransmitters), norepinephrine and serotonin, in the brain. http://www.webmd.com/depression/symptoms-depressed-anxiety-12/antidepressants
Tricyclic antidepressant is a type of medicine made to help depression it was
First discovered in the early 1950s and was subsequently introduced later in time. Tricyclic antidepressants are named after their chemical structure, which contains three rings of atoms. This medicine is taken to help depression.
The 1950s saw the clinical introduction of the first two specifically antidepressant drugs: iproniazid, a monoamine-Oxidize inhibitor that had been used in the treatment of tuberculosis, and imipramine, the first drug in the tricyclic Antidepressant family. Iproniazid and imipramine made two fundamental contributions to the development of psychiatry: One of a social-health nature, consisting in an authentic change in the psychiatric care of depressive patients; and the other Of a purely pharmacological nature, since these agents have constituted an indispensable research tool for neurobiology And psychopharmacology, permitting, among other things, the postulation of the first aetiopathogenic hypothese...
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... eventually death, suicidal thoughts and maybe even thoughts that turn into actions. I think TCA was a great invention that can help so many people in the future. This medicine is needed in some cases depending on how bad the person is struggling with depression.
TCA depression medicine affects the people today in a positive way. It’s showing people that there is a way to help with there depression disease. It is giving hope to those who thought there was not a cure. TCA it does not take it away for good it helps temporarily. Following directions given by your doctor. It is helping people carry on with there life knowing that they have this medicine to help them in there time of need. This medicine has helped people reduce symptoms like sadness, loneliness, feeling hopeless, and lack of energy. TCA Depression Medicine is a great way to help with depression desise.
Jeremy Laurance’s article “Ketamine: a cure for depression?” published in The Independent in October 2012, sanctions the use of a drug of abuse called ketamine for the treatment of depression. The author supports this theory by stating a study completed by Robert Dunman, a professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine in Boston. The following paragraph will summarise the main points of the article and discuss the evidence used by the author.
In the early 20th century, depression therapeutic strategies ranged from invasive therapeutics like insulin coma therapy, chemical and electrical shock therapy to administration of some addictive chemicals like chloral hydrate, barbiturates, amphetamines and opiates (Lopez-Munoz & Alamo C, 2009). In 1950s, Ipronizide, which was previously used as anti-tuberculosis, was introduced as the first Mono-amino-oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) and the first antidepressant ever marketed. Then Imipramine was int...
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Antidepressant usage has increased all around the world and is used by all ages. Doctors are prescribing more prescriptions, even if the patient does not need the medication. “Antidepressants prescriptions in the UK have increased by 9.6% in 2011, to 46 million prescriptions” (Are Antidepressants overused?). This study took place in the United Kingdom; however, a lot more prescriptions are being prescribed all around the world. The use of antidepressants is increasing to an all time high because doctors do not want to waste time talking about feelings. The psychologist’s just want the patients to feel better quickly so they prescribe antidepressants. Human beings as well as doctors think that prescribing medicat...
...reatly increased, and the results in treating disorders such as depression have become more dramatically positive (Gross 1). Unlike technology, chemicals such as those found in antidepressants cannot be easily altered. Complex biological processes often have to take place, and testing must be done on animals with each new chemical manipulation. This takes time and money, where adjusting rTMS methods is fairly simple and inexpensive to the medical industry.
Depression can result from a physical disease, a mental illness, or it can be a recurring reaction of the body. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, major depressive illnesses are often the result of imbalances in neurotransmitters in the brain. It is these critical chemicals that send messages between nerve fibers and control mood (Creamer, 3). Older anti-depressants worked on three different neurotransmitters, serotonin, norepinepherine, and dopamine. However, it has been found that serotonin is the specific chemical in the brain that controls moods. Its job is to carry an impulse from one nerve fiber to the next. Serotonin is released by the nerve into the space between nerve fib...
Regardless of the person whether male or female who has developed the symptoms of depression, their lives have been invaded by a sickness that can have a devastating effect on their lives; depending on how severe their symptoms are. If left untreated the end result could have an even more devastating effect. Luckily, there are treatments available that are successful.
...epressant drugs are required to relieve symptoms. Many antidepressants work by raising levels of monoamine neurotransmitters in the synapse. TCA’s, SSRI’s and SNRI’s are equally successful in depressive patients however differ in terms of their side effects. Due to advantages in pharmacological treatment and minimum variation in antidepressant efficiency, the choice of medication available to depression patients remains a choice in accordance to the patient’s characteristics and which treatment is deemed safe with less severe side effects. Antidepressants used today inhibit the role of serotonin and norepinephrine transporters, therefore preventing reuptake of targeted neurotransmitters. Although TCA’s are much cheaper to administer to patients, the overall rate of patients running depression-free is significantly lower than those patients who are prescribed SSRI’s.
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It is very common to hear people complaining about how fast the society changes nowadays. There are more and more people feel anxious and insecure about their life. And from the article “A Rising Cost of Modernity: Depression” by Daniel Goleman, it begins with this line “If the 20th century ushered in the Age of Anxiety, its exit is witnessing the dawn of the Age of Melancholy.” It clearly states the serious condition we are facing and suffering nowadays. There are a lot of articles and graphics have proven that the number of people who have been suffering from the depression is increasing significantly. Since there are so many people need medical treatments to help them recover from the depression, it’s easy to see people taking those “Antidepressant”
In Gary Greenberg's Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease, he takes an in depth look at the history behind depression, antidepressants, and how we have come to recognize and accept depression as a biochemical disease. When analyzing this book we can see that depression itself, whether it be a disease that is biochemically manifested or not, is deeply integrated into our society in a variety of ways as many aspects of society associated with depression have specific functions that are integral for society to function properly as a whole.
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Manic depression research as come a long way since it was first discovered. It still