Here’s our big A-to-Z list of all the FDA-approved drugs we have articles about that are used to treat various psychiatric and neurological conditions. These are all the US brand names and branded generic1 names we know of, along with the generic name.
The drugs should already be more-or-less in alphabetical order by brand name2. Clicking on the column head for generic name and class3 will sort the list by that column, and you can switch between ascending and descending order. There are also links to the first letter of the first brand or generic name starting with said letter.4
We also have pages that group based upon what they treat: antidepressants, antiepileptic drugs / anticonvulsants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics / anti-anxiety drugs, and meds for migraines and neuropathic pain.
We don’t have a page for every med, and we probably never will. We don’t cover every psychiatric condition in the DSM nor every neurological condition, and probably never will.
Drugs that come in immediate as well as extended / time-release versions, and different forms (tablets, oral solution, injection, etc.) are not listed separately on this page (E.g. all the different Risperdals); unless they have a radically different name (Equetro and Tegretol, e.g.).
Go to Brand/Trade Names Starting with…
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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This page has our even bigger a-to-z-to-я-to-ת-to-و-to-ん-to-하 list of meds. It’s the same as this one, along with all the trade and generic names we know of used outside of the US in a variety of non-Latin character sets. There are also drugs that aren’t approved by the FDA but are approved in other countries to treat various conditions, including whatever few we may have articles about (reboxetine, e.g.).
1 The term "branded generic" has three meanings:
1) A generic drug produced by a generics manufacturer that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company that makes the branded version. E.g. Greenstone Pharmaceuticals makes gabapentin, and they are owned by Pfizer, who also own Parke-Davis, the makers of Neurontin.
2) A branded generic is also a generic drug given a 'brand' name by the manufacturer (e.g. Teva's Budeprion), but otherwise has the same active ingredient as the original branded version (Wellbutrin).
3) A branded generic is also a generic drug given a 'brand' name by the manufacturer (e.g. Sanofi-Aventis' Aplenzin, which is bupropion hydrobromide) and uses a salt of the active ingredient that is different from the original branded version and other generics (Wellbutrin, Budeprion and all the others are bupropion hydrochloride). The FDA says they're the same thing, and, as usual, the data are contradictory. While most evidence indicates that the FDA is right and the differences are negligible, keep in mind that base paroxetine is over 20 times as potent as base fluoxetine, but because of paroxetine's screwy pharmacokinetics and the way the salts are absorbed, it takes only 20mg of Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) to be the equivalent of 10mg of Paxil (paroxetine hydrochloride).
For our purposes a "branded generic name" refers to the second and third definitions.
2 While Topamax has helped me tremendously to recover skills I lost due to a prolonged psychiatric and neurological meltdown, and I use software that sorts, alphabetical order past the first letter can still be a challenge.
3 As far as we're concerned. We currently group all crazy meds into three broad categories: antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) / anticonvulsants (ACs), antidepressants (ADs), and antipsychotics (APs). These classifications have more to do with chemistry than anything else. E.g. Strattera being classified as an antidepressant even though it is not approved to treat depression, Topamax being primarily prescribed to treat migraines. We save that sort of detail for the full-blown pages on each med.
4 Because not everyone has or knows how to use the ctrl-f option on their browser. And there are only so many ways to misspell a med.
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