This is the first installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, has increased among college ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Lundbeck Foundation. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental ...

However, this work shows that psilocybin outperformed escitalopram in several measures of well-being, meaning in life, work, and social functioning.” Escitalopram is a selective serotonin-reuptake ...

Patients taking antidepressant medication, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), often report emotional blunting even as their depression eases, new research shows. Emotional ...

New research suggests we don't understand antidepressants as well as we thought. Source: Anna Shvets/Pexels Depression, we are commonly taught, is the result of a “chemical imbalance”: having lower ...

Esketamine combined with a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) was linked to significantly lower rates of several adverse outcomes than ...

Public Citizen is pressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to strengthen the pregnancy warnings on widely used serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) antidepressants, arguing that current drug ...