The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
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Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper
How the “Chemical Imbalance” Metaphor Harms Patients
A chemical imbalance doesn’t explain depression. So what does?
“Clear evidence” for serotonin hypothesis of depression?
How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature
This study/article by Benjamin Anga, MarkHorowitz and Joanna Moncrieff has been published in ScienceDirect. The abstract says: “The theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical imbalance has become widely accepted by the public and is one…
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Primum non nocere: an evolutionary analysis of whether antidepressants do more harm than good
This review has been published on the PubMed website. The abstract says: “Antidepressant medications are the first-line treatment for people meeting current diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder. Most antidepressants are designed to perturb the mechanisms that regulate the neurotransmitter serotonin…
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Time for Some Serious Thought about ‘Antidepressants’
