Modern drug treatment of depression.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 17 Modern drug treatment of depression [Keywords:], depression; drug therapy [Abstract] depression, as the world’s most vulnerable to disability in affective disorder, one mental illness; in recent years has been people’s attention. The treatment of depression many ways, there is medication, psychotherapy, sleep deprivation therapy, traditional Chinese medicine therapy . With the right research on the pathogenesis of depression in depth, depression also has been growing awareness of modern drug therapy gradually became the main method of treatment of depression. This paper on the progress of modern drug treatment of depression are reviewed. [Keywords:] depression; drug therapy 0 Introduction Depression (depression) is a common affective disorder, mental illness, characterized by depressed mood, loss of range of interests and is characterized by a sense of happiness, and often accompanied by abnormal sleep, loss of appetite, weight loss, loss of libido and other physical symptoms, is the world’s most vulnerable disabled one of the diseases [1]. Global Burden of Disease study estimates that by 2020 depression will be second only to ischemic heart disease, the world’s second largest threat to human health, increasing economic burden of disease [2]. so in the future there will be more troubled by depression face. the treatment of depression many ways, there is medication, psychotherapy, sleep deprivation therapy, light therapy, Chinese medicine treatment, electric shock treatment. what was essentially given to psychological treatment, nearly 20 a years, with the etiology of depression and pathological progress of the study, and gradually established a leading position in drug treatment. is the modern drug treatment of depression are reviewed. A first generation of classical anti-depressants 1.1 monoamine oxidase inhibitor monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) are a class of selective inhibition of monoamine oxidase activity in the body of d