A new study shows that doctors are giving American kids two or three times more psychiatric drugs than they were 15 years ago. A handful of newer drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, ...

Although the clinical efficacy of antidepressants in children and adolescents is proven, it is frequently accompanied by side effects. In addition, the influence of the placebo effect on the efficacy ...

A medication meant to lift spirits may be falling flat. New research suggests that an antidepressant commonly prescribed to children and teens may not be as effective as once thought. Now, some ...

In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.

The FDA has stepped up warnings that children and adolescents taking any of 10 antidepressants should be monitored for depression or suicidal thinking, but the agency also said that no causal link had ...

Children and teens 6 to 17 years of age who take antidepressants are three times more likely to engage in suicidal behavior, researchers say. A new study confirms the validity of the warning required ...