Psychiatric drugs and weight gain

Posted by Crazy Horse on November 20, 2006, at 12:31:43

It is clear that many psychiatric drugs produce weight gain, even if the patient does not eat a lot.
Psychiatric drugs may cause weight gain by artificially slowing the metabolic
rate. They may do this by 'tricking' the hypothalamus into somehow changing it's set point, or they may effect the way fat cells throughout the body burn fat. Of course all of this is speculation.
The fact is that most psychiatric drugs-including most antidepressants, lithium, and antipsychotics cause weight gain. We really don't understand exactly why.
-Monte

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