Medical research
How do SSRIs like Prozac, Lexapro really work? Ask a fruit fly
This is a fruit fly.
Nov 14, 2022
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News tagged with serotonin
Medications
Researchers find most commonly prescribed class of anti-depressant medications do not reduce COVID severity
A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that the most commonly prescribed class of anti-depressants does not help reduce the severity of illness or even death for people who get COVID, ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Neuroscience
Serotonin key to social aversion during withdrawal from opioids in mice
The acute physical illness characterizing opioid withdrawal is tough enough to endure even with full family, community, and medical support—so it is a brutal and sometimes deadly irony that one of withdrawal's salient symptoms ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New drug elicits an antidepressant effect in mice in just two hours
A team of researchers working at Nanjing Medical University in China, has developed a new antidepressant drug that elicits an antidepressant effect in mice in just two hours. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
Medications
Study debunks use of antidepressant Luvox as COVID treatment
A study testing drugs that are used for other conditions for their potential in treating COVID-19 has found that the antidepressant fluvoxamine (brand name Luvox) offered no benefit, at least at an initial smaller dose.
Oct 20, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
SSRIs and CBT lead to changes in brain
Neurochemical changes in the brain differ among patients with social anxiety treated using both SSRIs and CBT, compared to those treated using only CBT. While the combined treatment involving the medicine blocked the serotonin ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Medical research
New insights into how serotonin regulates behavior
Rates of anxiety and depression have been increasing around the world for decades, a trend that has been sharply exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research led by the Boyce Thompson Institute's Frank Schroeder could ...
Oct 13, 2022
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Medications
Adverse health outcomes associated with long-term antidepressant use
Long-term antidepressant use may double the risk of heart disease, finds the most comprehensive epidemiological study to date to investigate the health consequences from using the medication over ten years. The University ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
With 'chemical imbalance' theory in doubt, what's next for depression care?
For Mary Christ, the idea that depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain has always felt true to her personal experience.
Sep 6, 2022
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Genetics
How the gut may help to drive COVID-19
New findings from Flinders University have demonstrated a molecular link between COVID-19 and serotonin cells in the gut.
Sep 1, 2022
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