Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist Eric Christensen.

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All right, so let's get into the drug today. Citalopram is what we're going to cover.

Brand name of this medication is Calexa. And if you remember, I did more of a generalized

overview of SSRIs.

But there's really some unique clinical quirks with satalopram that I wanted to kind of nail down

and make sure everyone was aware of there.

So mechanistically, being an SSRI selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor,

essentially this allows more action and activity

and allows serotonin to remain in the synapse and cause more action.

And that serotonin is well known to be associated with feelings of

happiness and things of that nature. So with that, we anticipate that providing more serotonin

will help depression is probably the most common indication I see it used for.

It's also got indications and evidence to support the use in anxiety, OCD, post-traumatic stress disorder.

So there's lots of different things you may see satelopram used for.

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