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All right, so let's get into what you guys came here today for, and that'd be acetalopram, is the drug.

And brand name of this medication is Lexapro.

I have covered SSRIs in general, but wanted to dig a little bit deeper, specifically on

acetalopram. So mechanistically, this drug is an SSRI, so selective serotonin re-uptake

inhibitor. I talked a little bit more about that mechanism in the SSRI section previously, so go check

that out in general there. Dosing on this medication, usual starting dose or the most typical

starting dose I see is 10 milligrams in the patient population. I work with most geriatric patients.

I have seen it started at 5 milligrams, you know, just being cautious and conservative.

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