How to Use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in a Sentence

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

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  • Sertraline is a type of antidepressant called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2015
  • And just 5% take a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a class of medications commonly used to treat both conditions.
    — Lisa Rab, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
  • SSRIs — short for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors — work by increasing the amount of serotonin in your brain.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • That means that drugs such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, used to treat psychiatric disorders, are likely to function very differently in humans than in mice.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
  • My doctor prescribed Celexa, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, for anxiety.
    — Health.com, 28 May 2020
  • The main group of such medications is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as antidepressants.
    — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Doctors often prescribe a type of antidepressant known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for treating depressive symptoms.
    — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The drug is fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor—an antidepressant.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In the days before selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a Servatii danish seemed to have pharmacological properties of its own.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Many of us are also looking for ways to increase serotonin without taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, known as an SSRI.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But some high-profile research has raised doubts about the science behind selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of medications frequently prescribed to treat depression and anxiety.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The first-line treatment for PMDD is often antidepressants, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
    — Tara Mandarano, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Unlike medications like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which are used long-term to treat anxiety disorders and depression, lorazepam is designed to be taken on-demand and goes to work within a few minutes.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs have been the first line of treatment for mood disorders and anxiety for the last three decades.
    — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Doctors often prescribe daily medications like benzodiazepines or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac or Zoloft.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The most prescribed medication is a type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And some of the risks attributed to the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI, are similar to those found in children exposed to their mother’s psychiatric illness.
    — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2018
  • That is different from many common antidepressants, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, which take longer to yield effects and that many patients can end up taking for a lifetime.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Escitalopram is one of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
  • With hot temperatures sweeping the country this summer, people who take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—often prescribed to treat depression—may want to be extra cautious.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 28 June 2024
  • Rogers asked, a reference to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressant medication.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Ibogaine, in particular, might affect the same serotonin transporter that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) target to treat depression.
    — Ella Weaver, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The drug, fluvoxamine, is an early selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor — a common type of antidepressant, similar to Prozac or Zoloft — developed in the 1980s.
    — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Escitalopram is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which increase your levels of serotonin to help maintain mental balance.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 May 2018
  • Yet anxiety can be treated with antidepressants like Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, combined with specialized forms of cognitive behavioral therapy.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the infants’ mothers had depression, and were being treated with anti-depressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), while others with depression were not treated.
    — Alice Park, Time, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Among those given medication, anxiety symptoms declined the most and remission was most likely with antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.
    — Linda Searing, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
  • In the case of some drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, the medications may change the levels of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, in the brain, which can affect dreams and nightmares.
    — Stacey Colino, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Kennedy has long argued selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressants that increase serotonin and lift mood, are overprescribed, particularly for children.
    — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Research has shown that people with high levels of this protein seem to respond better when given drugs that alter dopamine levels in the brain, rather than using only selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, a common type of antidepressant.
    — Jamie Ducharme, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026

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