Biological treatments: Depression

Biomedical approaches to treatment are based on the assumption that a clinical disorder has biological causes. Since depression is assumed to involve an imbalance in chemical messengers, antidepressant medications are used to restore an appropriate chemical balance in the brain.Global estimates for the number of people taking Prozac (fluoxetine) are challenging to determine precisely, but the United States alone saw...

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