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This 9 page paper discusses the prescription drug Zoloft, an antidepressant. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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sources will be virtually identical. With that in mind, lets look at the drug carefully. What is Zoloft used for? The generic name for Zoloft is sertraline (Zoloft, 2008). The
drug is one of a group of drugs known as "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors" or SSRIs, and is an antidepressant (Zoloft, 2008). Zoloft is used to affect "chemicals in the
brain that may become unbalanced and cause depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms" (Zoloft, 2008). Zoloft is "used to treat depression," panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder anxiety
disorders, and "premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)" (Zoloft, 2008). Other drugs in this class include "Prozac (fluoxetine), Paxil (paroxetine), Celexa (citalopram) and Luvox (fluvoxamine)" (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). Serotonin is
whats called a "neurotransmitter," or "chemical messenger"; its used by nerve cells in the brain to communicate with one another (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). The process is as follows: a
nerve cell produces serotonin and releases it "into the space surrounding it" (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). The neurotransmitter will either cross the space to another nerve and attach to the
receptors on the nerves surface, or it will attach to the receptors on the surface of the cell that originally produced it, where it is taken up and released again,
a process called re-uptake (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). A balance is reached when the re-uptake and attachment to other nerves is the same; SSRIs like Zoloft "block the reuptake of
serotonin and therefore change the level of serotonin in the brain" (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). It is widely believed that "some illnesses such as depression are caused by disturbances
in the balance between serotonin and other neurotransmitters" (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). Drugs such as Zoloft, then, restore the balance among the neurotransmitters by restoring the chemical balance in the
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