Therapies for the treatment of depression are mostly symptomatic, based on antidepressant drugs that treat the symptoms of the disease in order to improve people’s everyday lives. Antidepressants are based on the idea of normalizing the altered balance of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine and can be divided into three main categories: tricyclic antidepressants (TCA), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) and tricyclic antidepressants of the second generation.

 

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