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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

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Tags: depression, brains, serotonin, reviews.literature, joanna moncrieff, university college london, experiments, history, tuberculosis, pharmaceuticals, iproniazid, antidepressants, ssri, tryptophan, glutamate, genetics, stress, trauma, neurotransmitters, neuroscience, neurons, inflammation.chronic, psychiatry.molecular, sleep, sleep deprivation, author.joanna thompson, source.quanta magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/

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Title
The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think | Quanta Magazine
Published
Jan 26 2023
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  1. Eric_the_Cerise
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    Good article, but towards the end, it talks about how (I'm paraphrasing) "someday, physicians may think of 'depression' not as a single ailment, but as a group of different diseases with different...

    Good article, but towards the end, it talks about how (I'm paraphrasing) "someday, physicians may think of 'depression' not as a single ailment, but as a group of different diseases with different treatments"...

    I mean, that's been my definition for well over a decade, and anyone—professional or layperson—who still thinks "depression" is a single disease with a single cure, is way, way behind the times.

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