HOW TO USE MIRTAZAPINE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE?
Nowadays a great variety of new antidepressants are available and there are more opportunities for individual choice of the medication that suits a concrete patient with his own psychopathological characteristics. However, prescription of a psychopharmacological drug is based on thorough evaluation of the psychotropic properties of the drug including the target symptoms (syndromes) and their correspondence to the mechanism of the drug effect. For instance, mirtazapine, which is available presently in this country as Remeron, and its generics including Mirtazonal (produced by Actavis Company), belong to 'triple effect' drugs because they fill in the deficit of three monoamines (dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine). As a result they can be used in a wide spectrum of depression (e.g. sad, somatized, depersonalization, anxious-apathic, dysphoric, astheno-adynamic, anxious, asthenic, adynamic, apathic, anhedonic ones).