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The Carlat Guide to Medications Used for Insomnia

This handy table lists the medications most often used to treat insomnia.

Sleeping Pills: Which Ones for Which Patients? [Subscribers Only]

Insomnia is one of the most common comorbidities you’ll see in your depressed and anxious patients. But it is often misunderstood. While the common view is that insomnia is caused by a primary psychiatric or medical condition, it is more accurate to simply say that patients have insomnia and depression at the same time. Insomnia is almost never an isolated problem.

Serotonergic Antidepressants and Abnormal Bleeding

Do SSRIs and SNRIs cause bleeding? Several review articles have been published about it, and patients are beginning to ask us about it. What’s the scoop?

Research Update

FDA Publishes Article Critical of Vilazodone Data

It has been over a year now since the approval of vilazodone (Viibryd). As you may recall from our review of the drug in TCPR April 2011, vilazodone is an SSRI with partial agonism at the 5HT1A receptor.

FDA Warning: High Doses of Citalopram May Be Dangerous for the Heart

The editors at TCPR, as well as many of you, received a notice issued by the FDA on August 24, 2011 warning us that citalopram (Celexa) at doses higher than 40 mg may cause dangerous prolongation of the QT interval, which can increase the risk of cardiac arrhythmias (including the potentially fatal torsade de pointes).

Expert QA

Working With Primary Care Physicians in Treating Depression

In terms of starting new patients on antidepressants, PCPs do most of the prescribing.

The Motherisk Program

The Motherisk Program is a teratogen information service that has been around for more than 20 years.

Antidepressants

Article

The Carlat Guide to Medications Used for Insomnia

Sleeping Pills: Which Ones for Which Patients? [Subscribers Only]

Serotonergic Antidepressants and Abnormal Bleeding

Research Update

FDA Publishes Article Critical of Vilazodone Data

FDA Warning: High Doses of Citalopram May Be Dangerous for the Heart

Expert QA

Working With Primary Care Physicians in Treating Depression

The Motherisk Program

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Wellbutrin IR, SR, XL Fact Sheet

Paxil CR Fact Sheet

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The 2011 TCPR Atypical Antipsychotics Table is Now Available!