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Article: ANTI-DEPRESSANTS' EFFECTIVENESS WITH CHILDREN IS UNCLEAR.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- July 16, 1996
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Byline: WENDY GROSSMAN, STAFF WRITER
EVEN THOUGH anti-depressants like Prozac are regularly prescribed for depressed children, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved them for kids under 18.
Now, a Richmond child psychiatrist is exploring whether anti-depressants even work in children.
``There's very little research for depression that says the medicine is better than not doing anything (for children),'' says Bela Sood, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Medical College of Virginia.
So far, Sood has found that anti-depressants only work about half the time in ...