Researchers have found that SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) antidepressants have the potential to improve certain cognitive functions, such as verbal memory. They measured brain ...

At a MAHA Institute event Monday, the Health and Human Services Secretary compared his heroin withdrawal to a family member's ...

Plan promotes ‘deprescribing’ as psychiatrists warn crisis stems from lack of access to care, not overuse ...

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In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...

Something shifted in Washington this week that millions of Americans who take antidepressants will want to pay attention to.

Researchers have discovered that the ability to have an erection or to orgasm is related to the levels of serotonin in the brain, but this relation only applies to depressed patients taking SSRI ...

REUTERS - People using a common class of antidepressants may have slightly increased odds of suffering bleeding in the brain - though the risk is still very small, according to a Canadian study ...