Depressant General

Maintenance Use the lowest dose that maintains remission. Although it is not known how long the patient should remain on bupropion, acute episodes of depression generally require several months or longer of treatment. 

Depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) PO 10 mg/day Uniabeied Uses Mixed anxiefy and depressive disorder Contraindications Usewifhin 14 days of MAOIs... 

In this context, gender differences may be an important factor, particularly because women have a greater incidence of depression. Generally, women have lower seizure thresholds than men. Further differences in lateralization of brain function may produce differences in cognitive side effects, particularly fewer side effects with UND ECT in women (132). 

Clinical signs developed progressively and included anorexia, emaciation, and depressed general condition. No mortality occurred in cows treated with < 0.65 mg/kg/day and observed for 1 or 140 days following the end of treatment. 

Stoudemire, A., R. Frank, N. Hedemark, M. Kamlet, and D. Blazer. 1986. The economic burden of depression. General Hospital Psychiatry 8 387-94. 

Stage rv (death) occurs when the mednUary nenrons in the respiratory and vasomotor centers are completely depressed. General anesthetics depress the respiratory center only when given in higher-than-therapeutic doses morphine, on the other hand, depresses the respiratory center at a dose that does not canse narcosis. 

I. CNS depressants generally cause somnolence and depressed respiratory drive (with apnea a serious risk). 

A review of pennyroyal toxicity identified 22 adverse events from 1883 to 1996, most of which involved oral consumption of the essential oil at doses greater than 10 ml. Four cases had fatal outcomes the remaining cases had mild to severe outcomes ranging from nausea, dizziness, and dilation of pupils to respiratory depression, generalized seizures, and... 

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