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• Antidepressants

  • Sertraline Hydrochlonde
    Drug Approvals (British Approved Name Modified, US Adopted Name, rINN) International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) in main languages (French, Latin, and Spanish): Synonyms: CP-51974-01; CP-51974-1; Sertralina, hidrocloruro de BAN: Sertraline Hydrochloride [BANM] USAN: Sertraline Hydrochloride INN: Sertraline Hydrochloride [rINNM [...]
  • Reboxetine Mesilate
    Drug Nomenclature Synonyms: FCE-20124 (reboxetine or reboxetine mesilate); PNU-155950E; Reboxetina, mesilato de; Reboxetine Mesylate BAN: Reboxetine Mesilate [BANM] USAN: Reboxetine Mesylate INN: Reboxetine Mesilate [rINNM (en)] INN: Mesilato de reboxetina [rINNM (es)] INN: Réboxétine, Mésilate de [rINNM (fr)] INN: [...]
  • Protriptyline Hydrochloride
    Drug Nomenclature Synonyms: MK-240; Protriptilina, hidrocloruro de BAN: Protriptyline Hydrochloride [BANM] USAN: Protriptyline Hydrochloride INN: Protriptyline Hydrochloride [rINNM (en)] INN: Hidrocloruro de protriptilina [rINNM (es)] INN: Protriptyline, Chlorhydrate de [rINNM (fr)] INN: Protriptylini Hydrochloridum [rINNM [...]
  • Paroxetine
    Drug Approvals (British Approved Name, US Adopted Name, rINN) INNs in other languages (French, Latin, and Spanish): Synonyms: BRL-29060; FG-7051; Paroksetiini; Paroxetin; Paroxetinum BAN: Paroxetine USAN: Paroxetine INN: Paroxetine [rINN (en)] INN: Paroxetina [rINN (es)] INN: Paroxétine [rINN (fr)] INN: Paroxetinum [...]
  • Nortriptyline Hydrochloride
    Drug Approvals (British Approved Name Modified, US Adopted Name, rINN) International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) in main languages (French, Latin, and Spanish): Synonyms: 38489; Nortriptilin-hidroklorid; Nortriptilina, hidrocloruro de; Nortriptilino hidrochloridas; Nortriptyliinihydrokloridi; Nortriptylin-hydrochlorid; Nortriptylinhydroklorid; Nortriptylini [...]
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• Drugs

  • Lithium
    By rights, lithium should come first in a discussion of the first drug set, because its effectiveness was discovered — or more properly rediscovered — in 1949, just around the same time as [...]
  • Tricyclic Antidepressants
    The success of chlorpromazine wonderfully concentrated minds in the pharmaceutical industry. The discovery did seem capable of being reproduced. Chlorpromazine’s phenothiazine nucleus — two phenyl rings held together with a nitrogen and a [...]
  • Energizers
    In 1957 Hoffmann-La Roche secured from the FDA a depression indication for iproniazid, their drug brand-named Marsilid, that had been on the market for tuberculosis since 1951. Marsilid worked in psychiatry by inhibiting [...]
  • Chlorpromazine and the Phenothiazines
    Yet the concept of tranquilizer was validated in the usefulness of chlorpromazine and other phenothiazine antipsychotics as antidepressants. Antipsychotics as antidepressants: a fateful notion, for if the concept had survived, the subsequent division [...]
  • Dissolving the Tranquilizer Unity
    In the late 1950s the tranquilizer spectrum started to be hammered apart with the reification of specific drug categories such as antipsychotics, antidepressants, and anxiolytics as separate classes for distinct diseases. But this [...]
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