DEPRESSION AND MANIA
Depression is an affective syndrome characterized by intense sadness, general loss of interests in everyday aspects of life, insomnia, changes in appetite, and low self-esteem.
In the neurological point of view depression is due to lack of norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine at the CNS nerve synapses.
Treatments:-
1.Tricyclic antidepressants
2.Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors,(SSRIs)
3.Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors(MAOI)
4.Atypical or nonspecific antidepressants.
Out of the above treatments, SSRIs and atypical antidepressant treatments are considered as the most preferable and first-line treatments
