Category: chemical imbalance

Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children Without Scientific Justification?

March 3, 2023
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Commentary “As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,” medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, “medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions.” In their view, as well as in the view of multiple other expert consortiums, the most appropriate way to treat the “lifelong impairing condition”…

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How We Have Been Misled About Antidepressants

August 23, 2022
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Commentary Our umbrella review that revealed no links between serotonin and depression has caused shock waves among the general public, but has been dismissed as old news by psychiatric opinion leaders. This disjunction begs the questions of why the public has been fed this narrative for so long, and what antidepressants are actually doing if they are not reversing…

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‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory of Depression Hugely Profitable—and It’s Not Even True

August 16, 2022
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“Lexapro appears to relieve the symptoms of depression and anxiety by increasing serotonin,” says an ad on the Bonkers Institute, a website that archives drug ads and also satirizes pharma claims and shaky science. “Zoloft works to correct a chemical imbalance in the brain which may be related to symptoms of depression,” another ad says. “Paxil CR…

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