anti-depressants tricyclics

• what do tricyclics do?

  target more than one neurotransmitter, serotonin and noradrenaline
• what does noradrenaline do\?

  governs automatic nervous system
• how do tricyclics work?

  
  

  • they block the transported mechanisms that re-absorbs both neurotransmitters into the pre-synaptic cell after it has fired.
  • as a result of more of the neurotransmitters are left in the synapse, prolonging their activity and easing transmission of the next impulse