The best way to get off of antidepressants is gradually over months, with the support of a therapist, a new research review shows.

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 ...

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

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 ...

“Our findings suggest that while antidepressants are effective in preventing depressive relapses, they do not need to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...