Prescription painkillers, antidepressants and other brain drugs have gender-specific effects
Last year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the first sex-specific dosing guidelines for a psychopharmaceutical drug: the sleep medicine Ambien was discovered to be doubly potent for women. Here are a few of the medications that are known to act differently in men and women—but research is just beginning.
Prescription painkillers
Antidepressants
Sleep Aids
Antianxiety Medication
Antipsychotics
Anticonvulsants and more