2023 Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health 
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?
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. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?” The answer is overwhelming life pains.
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Clear Behavioral Health
MAY 2, 2025
Depression commonly refers to a mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed. Depression can be caused by acombination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. 877.799.1985 What is Depression?
Bullet Psych
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
It does this by enhancing GABA_A receptors (inhibitory neurotransmitter) and inhibiting NMDA glutamate receptors (excitatory neurotransmitter). Epidemiology & Pathogenesis 4 , 5 Genetics , environmental influences , and mental health comorbidities contribute to vulnerability. Highest rates in ages 1829.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. Down from 40mg.
Mad in America
MAY 6, 2025
2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Joseph Biederman was an example of grandiosity. My Critical Psychiatry Textbook is freely available.
ADDitude
MAY 18, 2025
It plays a key role in modulating neurotransmitters, increasing dopamine and serotonin, which leads to elevated mood and focus. Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. J Health Soc Behav. J Adolesc Health.
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