Child and adolescent mood disorders—experience with serotonin-based therapies

By most measures, child and adolescent depression is much like and continuous with adult depression. Aggregating all available data, much of which is relatively new, it seems most likely that noradrenergic and mixed serotonergic/noradrenergic tricyclic antidepressants are ineffective in child and adolescent depression, whereas serotonergic antidepressants (e.g., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are probably effective.