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General Information about Specific Medications
Research is constantly providing us with new information about the brain and the nature of mental illness and, consequently, more effective treatments, including medications. Not everyone responds to medications in the same way. Often, multiple types of medications must be assessed in order to find the one, or ones, that are the most effective for an individual.