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"In depression, movement slows down, speech becomes very rare. Immobility gradually spreads to the body. After a week of antidepressant therapy, you can see a relief of this motor inhibition, as if the movements had regained their amplitude, their kinetics, the muscles were awakening and the tone returned.
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"This release of inhibition is also infamous in psychiatry, because it may temporarily increase the risk of suicide. If you have a death wish that is very powerful, but you no longer have any will, it will be very difficult for you to finally put your thoughts into action."

Reference in French: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/votre-cerveau/ep5-comment-les-antidepresseurs-corrigent-vos-biais-cognitifs-3339139

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#Antidepressants "change your perception of the world, the kinetics of your movements or your emotional reactivity.
"Several studies have shown that very early changes (before any effect on mood) affect the recognition of facial emotions, the learning of new information or the updating of your beliefs."
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"When you take an antidepressant, it is easier for you to recognize the smiles, the positive feelings on the faces of the people you're meeting on the street. It also is harder for you to recognize the negative feelings, the feelings of anger, the feelings of fear. And you have an easier recall of your positive, pleasant memories of the past.
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Reference in French: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/votre-cerveau/ep5-comment-les-antidepresseurs-corrigent-vos-biais-cognitifs-3339139

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In pharmacology, an #antidepressant refers to a fairly diverse set of molecules that do not have the same modes of action, the same therapeutic effects or the same undesirable effects.

A common goal: to target monoamines, neuromodulators

Generally speaking, these are molecules that target what are called #neurotransmitters, including serotonin, noradrenaline or dopamine. When a neurotransmitter attaches to receptors in one neuron, it transmits an electrical message that can be transmitted to another neuron. It's kind of like a relay race. There are over 20 different types of synapses, each of which conveys specific messages and are involved in this brain activity differently."

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This protective mechanism for our mental health disappears when we suffer from depression. Tali Sharot's team, and later Tobias Kube and Winfried Rief's team, showed that depression reduces the ability to refresh these beliefs after positive information. This loss of the positive may even have led some psychiatrists to say that there was a form of depressive realism, in the sense that depression offered an uncompromising view of the world.
It is not known whether this depressive pseudo-realism is related to increased attention to negative stimuli or to greater porosity of beliefs to such unfavourable information.
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