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Sincerity, as any hipster will tell you, is for awkward teens and people on SSRIs.
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They found a small but significantly longer QT interval for SSRIs citalopram and escitalopram as well as for methadone and the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline.
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Your doctor may prescribe one of several selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil) or fluoxetine (Prozac), to help delay ejaculation.
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Lund and her colleagues tackled this issue by including a group of women who reported a history of some type of psychiatric illness but weren't taking SSRIs.
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"There's evidence that some of the SSRIs work, but they don't seem to work as well as estrogen, " says Grady, who cowrote an editorial accompanying the study.
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SSRIs work by enhancing the brain's ability to use serotonin.
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There were 16.2m prescriptions for SSRIs alone.
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Other SSRIs are Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft.
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"There is no easy way out of this, " says Dr. Tim Oberlander, a developmental pediatrician at BC Children's Hospital, in Vancouver, Canada, who has studied the effects of SSRIs on children exposed in the womb, but was not involved in the current study.
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The SSRIs' more indirect method of action is likely the reason why there is a lag time before patients feel relief from depressive symptoms, says Ronald S. Duman, professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.
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For some, the illness is a medically treatable imbalance in brain neurochemistry a serotonin deficiency that can be remedied by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, which has been prescribed to more than 35m people worldwide since its launch in 1988.
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