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All right. So we are going to cover tricyclic antidepressants today. I'm going to cover some of the

most important things you see in practice as well as things that show up on board exams. So

tricyclic antidepressants, as it sounds,

they are kind of classically used as an antidepressant.

They were the mainstay of therapy prior to the advent of SSRIs.

So at this point, it is an older class of antidepressant medications.

They are still used clinically.

But I will say, you know, it's most often when we've got a compelling indication or we've

got a patient that's refractory to other antidepressants.

So in addition to depression, certainly can be used for neuropathic pain, as well as migraine

prevention.

Those are the two major indications I see it used for.

Occasionally you see some insomnia use.

Usually that's lower dose oxopin.

I'll talk about that coming up.

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