Professor and Division Chief, Aging, Behavioral, and Cognitive Neurology University of Florida College of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Gainesville, Florida
The course “Treatment of Depression and Anxiety” will describe the general mechanism of action for antidepressant medications when used for the treatment of anxiety and depression. The talk will explore the differences in mechanism between existing antidepressant classes and describe a leading hypothesis explaining the rapid onset of action and antidepressant response seen in ketamine. Major side effects, mode of elimination, and potential drug-drug interactions will be reviewed comparing and contrasting features that are shared between classes or are distinctive by class. Finally, the second segment of the talk will discuss approaches to treating anxiety using antidepressants and other types of pharmacotherapy.
