We strive to develop medications that do only 1 or 2 things (ie, blocking serotonin reuptake or blocking D2 and 5HT2a receptors) and do nothing else. We assume that all other mechanisms of action ...

SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, revolutionized mental health treatment by increasing serotonin levels, ...

primarily because it is difficult to determine the mechanism of depression. New studies indicate that depression is not exclusively caused by decreased serotonin levels. To examine the role of ...

Research reveals new connections between the gut and brain, suggesting more targeted depression and anxiety treatments, and a ...

Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work -- it's the thrill of dopamine as the "pleasure chemical" and serotonin as tender mood-stabilizer that attract all the headlines. Of course ...

Early maltreatment in rhesus macaques reduced serotonin and dopamine receptor binding in key brain regions during adolescence, highlighting how adverse caregiving affects neural development and ...

ALTHOUGH the role of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin, 5HT ... These preliminary results seem to support a mechanism of competitive inhibition as has been shown in vitro, rather than an irreversible ...

Results identify intestinal epithelial 5-HT as a new and potentially safer therapeutic target for mood regulation.

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The mechanism of action of fluvoxamine maleate in obsessive compulsive disorder is presumed to be linked to its specific serotonin reuptake inhibition in brain neurons. Fluvoxamine has been shown ...