[Progress of new antidepressant drugs development].

Depression becomes more and more serious and has been greatly do harm to human's physical and mental health. WHO predicts that depression will become the second leading cause of abnormal death and disability by 2020. There is still the drug treatment as the first-line antidepressive therapy, but the effect of listed antidepressant drugs is not ideal. Therefore, discovery of new antidepressant drug of sunique, higher curative effect, less adverse reaction is the pursuit of pharmaceutical. The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) of anti-depression and natural antidepressant in currently listed, drug development and drug discovery phase are summarized in this paper, aiming to provide reference for new antidepressant drug research. Copyright© by the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association.