Findings From a Survey of 530 British Antidepressant Users
Psychology Today,
A survey of over 500 British antidepressant users found that most experienced severe withdrawal effects when they tried to stop…
Cochrane Reviews of Psychiatric Drugs Are Untrustworthy
Mad In America,
The Cochrane Collaboration was established in 1993 as an idealistic grassroots organisation with the aim of publishing updated…
The STAR*D Scandal: Scientific Misconduct on a Grand Scale
Mad In America,
When the STAR*D study was launched more than two decades ago, the NIMH investigators promised that the results would be rapidly…
Therapeutics update: Depression
Pulse Today -,
Dr Peter Bagshaw reviews the latest thinking in depression management, offers practical advice to busy GPs and looks at what’s…
Serotonin: Still a Prominent Player in the Depression Puzzle
Psychology Today,
Depression is a common mental health condition that continues to challenge researchers and clinicians in the quest for…
16 Wrong Ideas About Mental Illness
Psychology Today,
Myths about mental health can create unnecessary fear for you and loved ones.
Causality in Mental Disturbance
Mad In America,
Editor’s Note: The following is an original research article by Peter Sterling, Professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman…
Psychiatrists Have No Credible Explanation for Apparition Sightings
Future and Cosmos,
Psychiatrists are famous for pretending to know things that they don't actually know. For many decades psychiatrists peddled at…
ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good
Mad In America,
Last week, in my chat with ChatGPT, I sought to see whether it could produce evidence supporting the long-term use of…
Depressionen verstehen: am Beispiel von Hazel Bruggers Erfahrungen
MATHEMATIK IM ALLTAG,
Die Komikerin war bei Harald Schmidt und Prof. Ulrich Hegerl zu Gast. Jetzt ordnen wir ihre Schilderung ein. Im ersten Teil…
10 Reasons You Could Be Depressed
Psychology Today,
There's a misconception that depression is either due to a life conflict or a serotonin imbalance. The truth is, it's not…
Serotonin hypothesis of depression: balance (and imbalance) is in the eye of the beholder
The Mental Elf,
The 2022 review by Moncrieff et al on the serotonin theory of depression received a great deal of media coverage. In this blog…
Akathisia: Historical Perspective for Healing
Mad In America,
In 2018, I wrote an article for Mad in America called “The Agonizing Nightmare of Drug-Induced Akathisia.” It details the…
¿Qué es una Terapia Basada en Procesos (TBP)?
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Introducción Dado que se trata de un texto reflexivo, me permito hacer una disquisición personal al inicio del mismo. Hace más…
Self-test for Adult Symptom Deficiency Disorder (ASDD)
Mad In America,
Psychiatric diagnoses are based on a constellation of symptoms that healthy people can also experience. When researchers…
Is Exercise Actually the Most Effective Antidepressant?
Real Clear Life,
Antidepressant prescriptions have increased by 35% over the last six years. On one hand, it’s encouraging to see so many…
The great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone?
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
Drugs targeting the ‘happy hormone’ are widely used for depression. But some question whether the condition is caused by a…
Why Depression Treatments Sometimes Fail
Psychology Today,
Why do depression treatments often fail? Major depressive disorder is multidimensional.
Beyond Psychiatry: A Trauma-Centric View of Mental Health
Mad In America,
As regular readers of Mad in America are well aware, the field of psychiatry’s level of success at treating (or even…
A New Paradigm for Testing Psychiatric Drugs Is Needed
Mad In America,
Editor’s Note: The following is an original research article by Peter C Gøtzsche at the Institute for Scientific Freedom…
Low serotonin is not a cause of depression? Controversial study spawns misinformation about the effectiveness of SSRIs
Genetic Literacy Project,
Threatened for Telling the Truth: Polish Journalist Speaks Out
Mad In America,
For over thirty years now I have been a journalist, traveler, and writer. I have written over a hundred books, most of them self…
The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
Quanta Magazine,
People often think they know what causes chronic depression. Surveys indicate that more than 80% of the public blames a “chemical…
Leading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a Science
Mad In America,
Since the seventeenth century, Enlightenment thinkers have distinguished science from religion, and by at least one critical…
Серотонин, останьтесь
N+1: научные статьи, новости, открытия,
Гиппократ и Гален считали, что темперамент, да и настроение человека зависят от баланса четырех жидкостей: черной желчи, желтой ж…
The New York Times Uncritically Repeats Discredited Antidepressant Claims
Counter Punch,
If all one knew about the serotonin imbalance theory of depression was from that November 9, 2022 New York Times article, one…
Celebrating Steps Toward Humane Approaches to Distress
Psychology Today,
2022 saw many successes in the ongoing struggle for effective mental health services.
Four Myths About Mental Illness
Psychology Today,
The truths of what we call mental illness.
With or Without Antidepressants, An Ongoing Dilemma
Medical Humanities,
Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media…
Los antidepresivos no funcionan como muchos creen
Well - New York Times,
Los medicamentos que suelen prescribirse para tratar la depresión son efectivos hasta cierto punto, pero no porque corrijan un “d…
No Evidence for Psychiatry’s Depression Claims, Report Three 2022 Research Reviews
Mad In America,
From CounterPunch: “According to three 2022 comprehensive research reviews, there is no scientific evidence for what we have…
Do We Give Antidepressants Too Much Credit?
Real Clear Life,
In the decade from 2005 to 2015, some 17.5 million Americans were diagnosed with depression each year. Antidepressant…
No Evidence for Psychiatry’s Depression Claims, Report Three 2022 Research Reviews
Counter Punch,
According to three 2022 comprehensive research reviews, there is no scientific evidence for what we have long been told by…
Are We Witnessing the Emergence of a New Paradigm?
Mad In America,
Today’s prevailing mental health system still, to a large extent, functions on an old paradigm. This paradigm reduces mental…
First Demonstration of Serotonin's Direct Role in Depression
Psychology Today,
Emerging research implicates low serotonin in depression, after all.
Medicine: The Next Frontier
Psychology Today,
What can you do when medical research is contradictory? A few additions can go a long way.
Antidepressant Withdrawal Linked to Suicide Attempt in Case Study
Mad In America,
In a new article published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Nicholas Waldvogel and Alan Akira present a case study of…
Anxiety and Depression is a ‘Thing’
Nutri-Link Ltd - Clinical Education,
Reading the press, listening to the radio, or sourcing information from journals or other sources such as social media, it is…
A New-Old Way of Coping with Grief
Mad In America,
It’s been a polarizing year for mental health. Back in March, psychiatry finally annexed grief. After years of trying…
Psychiatry’s Nightmarish 2022
Mad In America,
This year has been an especially nightmarish one for psychiatry defenders. Receiving widespread attention in the mainstream…
Has the Serotonin Hypothesis Been Debunked?
Psychology Today,
A recent review paper claims it debunks the serotonin hypothesis for depression. But it was never a legitimate hypothesis, so…
Doctors Stopped Believing in the ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory. But They Didn’t Tell Us
Mad In America,
From National Post: “Psychiatry has known for quite some time that the ‘serotonin theory’ of depression, the notion that too…
Depressionen: Kommen die Fakten endlich ans Licht?
MENSCHEN-BILDER,
Neue ARD-Dokumentation zeigt Schattenseiten der millionenfachen…
Depression Isn’t Caused By Low Serotonin. So How Do Antidepressants Work?
Science Friday Blog,
Antidepressants work, but researchers still don’t fully understand why. Experts discuss what we do and don’t know about how…
The Danger of Dissing Antidepressants
Psychology Today,
A new study about serotonin and depression focused on only one aspect of a complex condition. Not understanding how…
No, Low Serotonin Doesn’t Cause Depression
Cracked: All Posts,
By Ryan Menezes Published: September 04th, 2022
We Still Don’t Know How Antidepressants Work
Psychology Today,
How do SSRIs work? That is still unclear.
Major Depression: The “Chemical Imbalance” Pillar Is Crumbling—Is the Genetics Pillar Next?
Mad In America,
The Pillars of Biopsychiatry In a widely discussed July, 2022 analysis, psychiatrists Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz and…
¿Y si la falta de serotonina no fuera la causa de la depresión?
TekCrispy,
How profit and professional interests have misled us about antidepressants
Joanna Moncrieff,
Our umbrella review that revealed no links between serotonin and depression has caused shock waves among the general public…
“Holy Shit!” Psychiatry’s Cognitive Dissonance on Display
Mad In America,
After we published our report “Psychiatry, Fraud and the Case or a Class Action Lawsuit” on August 13, psychiatrist Awais Aftab—w…
My adult ADHD drugs felt like a lifeline. Then came the scary side-effects …
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
After a year on prescription stimulants, I started to unravel. Would a desperate experiment with street narcotics make me see…
Beverley Thomson–Antidepressed: Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Mad In America,
Our guest today is Beverley Thomson. Beverley is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication…
5 Surprising Ways Gut Health Affects Mental Health
Psychology Today,
Surprising ways that gut microbiota may help diagnose and treat anxiety, depression, autism spectrum disorder, Alzheimer's…
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
Mad In America,
When Mad in America received a notice this past June that Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz, and colleagues would soon publish a…
Link Between Serotonin and Depression Questioned
Physician's Weekly,
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Evidence is lacking for an association between serotonin and depression, according…
Is the Serotonin Theory of Depression Dead?
Psychology Today,
Is there still a role for antidepressants?
Behind Rolling Stone’s Hatchet Job on a Psychiatrist Critical of Neoliberal Capitalism
Counter Punch,
For quite some time now, the standard hatchet used by psychiatry apologists in their attacks on any critic of psychiatry is to…
Cómo tomar la noticia de que no se ha demostrado que la depresión sea causada por un desequilibrio químico
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El pasado 20 de julio Joanna Moncrieff y un equipo de investigadores publicaron una contundente investigación en la revista…
Three Natural Remedies Shown to Help Depression and Anxiety
Psychology Today,
Three recent studies show the benefits of healthy eating, probiotics, and vitamin B6 supplements for alleviating depression and…
The Terrifying Prospect of a Republican War on Antidepressants
Slate Blogs,
Other issues that started as fringe conspiracy theories now play major roles in in contemporary national-level GOP politics.
The chemical imbalance theory of depression is dead, but that doesn’t mean antidepressants don’t work
PsyPost,
The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, long-time…
Sérotonín depresiu nerieši, antidepresíva však stále fungujú, hovorí psychiater
Denník N,
V psychiatrii spravila minulý mesiac rozruch veľká metaanalýza, ktorú uverejnil odborný časopis Molecular Psychiatry. Jej…
Depression is Not a Chemical Imbalance
The Trumpet,
What is the real cause of depression?
Behind the new study changing how doctors view depression
It's Interesting,
You’ve seen the pharma ads saying depression may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. For years, that’s what the…
Why Has the Misleading “Chemical Imbalance” Theory of Mental Illness Persisted for So Long?
Slate Blogs,
A new study has revived a vicious debate about antidepressants and how we think about depression.
If It Isn’t Serotonin, What Causes Depression?
Psychology Today,
Depressive disorders are not caused by serotonin dysfunction. Many neurotransmitters influence the neural networks underlying…
The Serotonin Hypothesis and the Gut-Brain Axis
Psychology Today,
SSRIs are taking some flack lately, but the situation is more complicated than it first looks—and it involves gut microbes.
Debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory yet not throwing out the antidepressant baby with the bathwater
SharpBrains,
A recent study found inconsistent evidence linking the neurotransmitter serotonin to depression. In an article for The…
No hay evidencia de que la depresión sea causada por niveles bajos de serotonina
,
Durante años se ha repetido miles de veces que la depresión se debe a un desbalance químico y que el mejor tratamiento son los…
Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper
Mad In America,
We recently published a paper finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low…
Remembering a Quarter of a Million "Mental Patients" Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s
Psychology Today,
During World War II, an unsubstantiated genetic theory justified the killing of thousands of mental patients. What lessons…
Depression and Serotonin: What the New Review Actually Says
Psychology Today,
A new review debunking the serotonin deficit theory of depression is out. Is it game-changing, old and irrelevant news, or…
Zamieszanie wokół antydepresantów. Głos zabrało Polskie Towarzystwo Psychiatryczne
wprost,
Depresja nie jest spowodowana niskim poziomem serotoniny – mówią nowe badania. W publikacji pojawia się także wątek działania…
“No Convincing Evidence That Depression Is Associated With, Or Caused By, Lower Serotonin Concentrations Or Activity”
William M. Briggs,
That lack of, or low, serotonin drives “depression” is a medial truism, say many. Those who say it most strongly are those…
¿Y si el origen de la depresión no es como nos lo habían contado?
EcoAvant.com - Portada,
Durante las últimas tres décadas, la sociedad ha venido recibiendo una avalancha de información sugiriendo que la depresión está…
Depression Is Not Caused by Chemical Imbalance in the Brain
Psychology Today,
Much of what you may have been taught to think about depression—and depression treatment—is wrong.
How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance
Joanna Moncrieff,
Summary TL;DR For decades people have been told that depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. This was the rationale…
The mechanisms of depression
Lunatic Laboratories,
In news that will surprise almost zero depressed people, we are once again adjusting our thought process on what causes…
If Serotonin Doesn't Cause Depression, What Does?
Psychology Today,
What the latest research says about non-serotonin explanations for depression.
Serotonin Imbalance Isn’t Linked to Depression
Psychology Today,
Psychologists and doctors have long thought that antidepressants worked by increasing low levels of serotonin in the brain. New…
Depression not caused by ‘chemical imbalance’, say researchers
Pulse Today -,
Patients should not be told that depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain, say researchers who found ‘no convincing…
Large systematic review finds no evidence for the serotonin hypothesis of depression
PsyPost,
A large systematic umbrella review published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests a lack of consistent evidence linking serotonin…
Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
ZME Science,
It's a shocking new study that contradicts decades of medical theories.
Серотониновая теория депрессии развенчана новым исследованием
AB-News Russia,
В систематическом комплексном обзоре предыдущих соответствующих исследований международная группа ученых обобщила и оценила данны…
Depression Likely Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain – New Study
Mad In America,
From The Conversation: “For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a ‘c…
Systematic umbrella review finds no evidence that serotonin abnormalities are associated with depression (but don’t stop your drugs suddenly)
Joanna Moncrieff,
Our new review of serotonin research collated research from six different areas. We looked at research on serotonin levels in…
Comprehensive review finds little evidence that depression is caused by an imbalance of serotonin in the brain.
SPECIALTIES,
The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence – Molecular…
Huge New Study Suggests Depression Isn't a Serotonin Imbalance After All
Science Alert,
Wait... what?
Evidence That Serotonin Failure Does Not Cause Depression
Psychology Today,
Discarding an old dogma may finally lead to effective therapies for depression.
No evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin levels, finds comprehensive review
Science Blog,
After decades of study, there remains no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for…
Review: No clear evidence that serotonin levels are responsible for depression
news-medical.net,
After decades of study, there remains no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for…
Серотонин перестали винить в развитии депрессии
N+1: научные статьи, новости, открытия,
Обзор метаанализов не нашел доказательств связи серотонина и депрессии
Новый большой обзор не обнаружил связи между депрессией и дефицитом серотонина
Naked Science,
<img src="https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/depr0.jpg" alt="Новый большой обзор не обнаружил связи между депрес…
No link between depression and serotonin, finds major analysis
New Scientist - Astrobiology,
A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI…
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
Psychology Today,
An exhaustive, well-powered review may have conclusively debunked the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression.