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In your experience, when do antidepressants begin to take effect for depression?

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Psychiatry · Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

Postsynaptic down-regulation is known to occur at the four- to six-week mark. And I tend to delay dose changes until that point, if at all possible. Although this mechanism of action is now less solid with some of the meta-analysis data on the serotonin hypothesis, the time frame still holds for obs...

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