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the sort of old style antidepressants, but they have fewer side effects
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and they tend to be easier for people to tolerate.
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More recently,there are selective serotonin/norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors.
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These drugs, by the way,
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what these drugs supposedly do is to prevent the re-uptake of serotonin
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or serotonin and norepinephrine back into the sending neuron.
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So, it creates more of the neurotransmitter there in the synapse.
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And these are reasonably effective drugs, although, again,
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there's a substantial number of people
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who don't respond to them, especially immediately.
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And they'll often have to cycle through a number of drugs
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before they find one that works.