snri Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Tue, 06 Jul 2021 23:02:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 snri Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Antidepressant Response Linked to Norepinephrine Transporter Genotype https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/antidepressant-response-linked-norepinephrine-transporter-genotype/ Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:06:41 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=12213 A large study of patients treated with venlafaxine found that antidepressant response was linked to the norepinephrine transporter (NET) genotype. The study looked at response in a sample of 350 individuals over the age of 60 with severe depression (MADRS greater than or equal to 15) who were treated with venlafaxine up to a dose of 300 mg a day. ...

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]]> 12213 Norepinephrine dopamine and depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/norepinephrine-dopamine-and-depression/ Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:11:28 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=10088 In an elegant set of studies published in February 2016 in Nature Neuroscience the team of Bruno Giros, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, reports the first-ever connection between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to depression. The study involved research using probably the most well developed animal model for depression – chronic or ...

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]]> 10088 Functional Brain Imaging and Antidepressant Response https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/functional-brain-imaging-and-antidepressant-response/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:33:45 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=10053 One of the most exciting initiatives currently in the important area of  the treatment of depression is the International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression (iSPOT-D). This large multi-center initiative is based on a private industry and academic partnership that is designed to both identify best practices in the treatment of depression and also commercialize them. The most recent publication from this ...

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