Depression Treatment

Antidepressants are medications which relieve or prevent depression. Before antidepressant’s discovery it were extensively used substances with stimulating effect. They were able to cause euphoria (opium and other opiates, caffeine, ginseng). To reduce anxiety and excitability it was used valerian, as well as bromine salt. The real revolution in psychopharmacology was discovery of antidepressants in [...]