‘ “Chemical imbalance is sort of last-century thinking. It’s much more complicated than that,” says Dr. Joseph Coyle, a professor of neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. “It’s really an outmoded way of thinking.”
…Still, the story of serotonin remains. Why does it continue to have such a powerful grip on the popular imagination?’ (via NPR).
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- New Research on the Antidepressant-Versus-Placebo Debate (healthland.time.com)
- How Does Prozac Work? (wired.com)
- Prozac in the water makes shrimp go crazy (thestar.com)
- ‘Prozac defence’ stands in Manitoba teen’s murder case (news.nationalpost.com)
- Serotonin cell discoveries mean rethink of depression (newscientist.com)
- What if the drugs don’t work? (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
- Serotonin: 9 Questions and Answers (webmd.com)
- Big Pharma’s ‘Antidepressants’ Don’t Work (lewrockwell.com)
- Longevity Proteins Linked To Anxiety (medicalnewstoday.com)
- Antidepressants used by 11 percent of Americans (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s – “Prozac Rock” (donewaiting.com)
- Why Prozac Is Still a Mystery (bigthink.com)
- Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain (scientificamerican.com)
- Chemical imbalance myth takes a big public fall (no, antidepressants do NOT correct an imbalance of serotonin, nor do other psychiatric drugs correct anything at all) (beyondmeds.com)
- Psychiatry’s Grand Confession (victimsofatoscorruption.wordpress.com)
- Depression: How Long Should You Take Antidepressants? (webmd.com)
