Monthly Archives: January 2017

Psychopharmacology Made Simple: What’s it like when an SSRI[1] works? What benefit can one expect from a medication? While it’s easy enough to find information online about side effects and diagnostic indications (approved uses), it’s much more difficult to learn … Continue reading →

Wellbutrin (bupropion) works quite differently from SSRIs such as Lexapro (escitalopram), the subject of a previous blog post. How does it work? Per UpToDate[1], “like other antidepressants the mechanism of bupropion’s activity is not fully understood”. [2]   Clinically, it’s … Continue reading →

Hypomanic states are rarely observed by the psychiatric clinician. Bipolar  patients are much more commonly depressed  (according to Judd et al, bipolar II patients spent only 1.3% of the time in hypomania over 13 years of follow-up). http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/207252  accessed 1/14/17 … Continue reading →