Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Antidepressant and Medication

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Antidepressant and Medication

Antidepressant vs. Medication

Antidepressants are drugs used for the treatment of major depressive disorder and other conditions, including dysthymia, anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and, in some cases, dysmenorrhoea, snoring, migraine, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction, dependence, and sleep disorders. A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

Similarities between Antidepressant and Medication

Antidepressant and Medication have 30 things in common (in Unionpedia): Amphetamine, Anticonvulsant, Antihistamine, Antipsychotic, Anxiolytic, Benzodiazepine, Chlorpromazine, Cure, Dopamine agonist, Drug, Drug design, Food and Drug Administration, Hypnotic, Lithium (medication), Medical prescription, Methylphenidate, Monoamine oxidase inhibitor, National Health Service, Novartis, Opioid, Over-the-counter drug, Parkinson's disease, Pharmaceutical industry, Prescription drug, Preventive healthcare, Reserpine, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Sex steroid, Stimulant, Tricyclic antidepressant.

Amphetamine

Amphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

Amphetamine and Antidepressant · Amphetamine and Medication · See more »

Anticonvulsant

Anticonvulsants (also commonly known as antiepileptic drugs or as antiseizure drugs) are a diverse group of pharmacological agents used in the treatment of epileptic seizures.

Anticonvulsant and Antidepressant · Anticonvulsant and Medication · See more »

Antihistamine

Antihistamines are drugs which treat allergic rhinitis and other allergies.

Antidepressant and Antihistamine · Antihistamine and Medication · See more »

Antipsychotic

Antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers, are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Antidepressant and Antipsychotic · Antipsychotic and Medication · See more »

Anxiolytic

An anxiolytic (also antipanic or antianxiety agent) is a medication or other intervention that inhibits anxiety.

Antidepressant and Anxiolytic · Anxiolytic and Medication · See more »

Benzodiazepine

Benzodiazepines (BZD, BZs), sometimes called "benzos", are a class of psychoactive drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.

Antidepressant and Benzodiazepine · Benzodiazepine and Medication · See more »

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpromazine (CPZ), marketed under the trade names Thorazine and Largactil among others, is an antipsychotic medication.

Antidepressant and Chlorpromazine · Chlorpromazine and Medication · See more »

Cure

A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured.

Antidepressant and Cure · Cure and Medication · See more »

Dopamine agonist

A dopamine receptor agonist is a compound that activates dopamine receptors.

Antidepressant and Dopamine agonist · Dopamine agonist and Medication · See more »

Drug

A drug is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological (and often psychological) change in the body.

Antidepressant and Drug · Drug and Medication · See more »

Drug design

Drug design, often referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target.

Antidepressant and Drug design · Drug design and Medication · See more »

Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.

Antidepressant and Food and Drug Administration · Food and Drug Administration and Medication · See more »

Hypnotic

Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep) or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or surgical anesthesia.

Antidepressant and Hypnotic · Hypnotic and Medication · See more »

Lithium (medication)

Lithium compounds, also known as lithium salts, are primarily used as a psychiatric medication.

Antidepressant and Lithium (medication) · Lithium (medication) and Medication · See more »

Medical prescription

A prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other qualified health care practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient.

Antidepressant and Medical prescription · Medical prescription and Medication · See more »

Methylphenidate

Methylphenidate, sold under various trade names, Ritalin being one of the most commonly known, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the phenethylamine and piperidine classes that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.

Antidepressant and Methylphenidate · Medication and Methylphenidate · See more »

Monoamine oxidase inhibitor

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of drugs that inhibit the activity of one or both monoamine oxidase enzymes: monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B).

Antidepressant and Monoamine oxidase inhibitor · Medication and Monoamine oxidase inhibitor · See more »

National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.

Antidepressant and National Health Service · Medication and National Health Service · See more »

Novartis

Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland.

Antidepressant and Novartis · Medication and Novartis · See more »

Opioid

Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.

Antidepressant and Opioid · Medication and Opioid · See more »

Over-the-counter drug

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are medicines sold directly to a consumer without a prescription from a healthcare professional, as opposed to prescription drugs, which may be sold only to consumers possessing a valid prescription.

Antidepressant and Over-the-counter drug · Medication and Over-the-counter drug · See more »

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.

Antidepressant and Parkinson's disease · Medication and Parkinson's disease · See more »

Pharmaceutical industry

The pharmaceutical industry (or medicine industry) is the commercial industry that discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as different types of medicine and medications.

Antidepressant and Pharmaceutical industry · Medication and Pharmaceutical industry · See more »

Prescription drug

A prescription drug (also prescription medication or prescription medicine) is a pharmaceutical drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.

Antidepressant and Prescription drug · Medication and Prescription drug · See more »

Preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare (alternately preventive medicine, preventative healthcare/medicine, or prophylaxis) consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment.

Antidepressant and Preventive healthcare · Medication and Preventive healthcare · See more »

Reserpine

Reserpine (also known by trade names Raudixin, Serpalan, Serpasil) is an indole alkaloid, Major Types Of Chemical Compounds In Plants & Animals Part II: Phenolic Compounds, Glycosides & Alkaloids. Wayne's Word: An On-Line Textbook of Natural History.

Antidepressant and Reserpine · Medication and Reserpine · See more »

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that are typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.

Antidepressant and Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor · Medication and Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor · See more »

Sex steroid

Sex steroids, also known as gonadocorticoids and gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate androgen or estrogen receptors.

Antidepressant and Sex steroid · Medication and Sex steroid · See more »

Stimulant

Stimulants (also often referred to as psychostimulants or colloquially as uppers) is an overarching term that covers many drugs including those that increase activity of the central nervous system and the body, drugs that are pleasurable and invigorating, or drugs that have sympathomimetic effects.

Antidepressant and Stimulant · Medication and Stimulant · See more »

Tricyclic antidepressant

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are a class of medications that are used primarily as antidepressants.

Antidepressant and Tricyclic antidepressant · Medication and Tricyclic antidepressant · See more »

The list above answers the following questions

Antidepressant and Medication Comparison

Antidepressant has 223 relations, while Medication has 369. As they have in common 30, the Jaccard index is 5.07% = 30 / (223 + 369).

References

This article shows the relationship between Antidepressant and Medication. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

Hey! We are on Facebook now! »