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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing number of commentators claiming that antidepressants don’t work, that pharmaceutical companies lied, and that these drugs are overprescribed ...

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 ...