A major paper debunking the “serotonin hypothesis” has a lot of people agitated. But leaving more room for nuance in our discussions about mental health is the right idea. Building a more complex, ...

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have used Nobel prize-winning microscope technology to see full length serotonin receptors for the first time. The tiny ...

There is no evidence of deficiency of serotonin in depression, authors report, refuting a belief held by 80% of the public. The misconception, long invoked as a reasoning for long term use of SSRI ...

Serotonin is known to regulate digestion at multiple levels within the human gastrointestinal, and up to 95% of the mood-regulating hormone is released into the gut by certain intestinal cells. What's ...

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 ...

Boston -- Researchers at The Forsyth Institute have discovered that the transport mechanisms for serotonin -- the chemical substance involved in transmitting signals between neurons, and which has a ...

Major depression is one of the most common psychological disorders, affecting more than 23 million adults and adolescents each year in the U.S. It carries economic costs in the hundreds of billions ...

After decades of study, there remains no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for depression, according to a major review of prior research. After decades of ...

Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline cause severe and often long-lasting hallucinations, but they also show great potential in treating a number of serious psychiatric conditions, ...

Serotonin deficiency occurs when serotonin doesn’t act as well as it should in your body. This can happen if your body doesn’t produce enough serotonin or if it doesn’t use serotonin efficiently.