2013 Childhood trauma Genetics and mental health 
Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
J ust about everyone believes that depressionthe #1 psychiatric diagnosisis explained in the same way as physical illnesses; that is, that depression, too, is of genetic/physiological origin. NIMH and psychiatrists have not always explained depression to be genetic (as “running in the family). Their efforts have failed.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S. With the fall of the serotonin-imbalance theory, there was no scientific explanation for the mechanism of antidepressants.
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