The top scorers were New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and then Kansas. The site dubbed the areas with the worst school systems as Nevada, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and, lastly, the District of Columbia. Scroll over each state to see its ranking.
A: Wellbutrin (bupropion) is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with a certain type of depression called major depressive disorder. It can also help prevent autumn-winter seasonal depression (seasonal affective disorder).
Antidepressant drugs do their work by either increasing the production of neurotransmitters or by breaking them down. There are three major neurotransmitters that are involved in depression. These are called dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Serotonin is sometimes called 5-HT. When the levels of one or more of these neurotransmitters dip or become unbalanced, depression or other conditions may result. The newest class of antidepressants is called selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI's). The drugs from this class used for depression are Effexor XR (venlafaxine), Cymbalta (duloxetine), and Pristiq (desvenlafaxine). SNRI's are capable of acting on both norepinephrine and serotonin.