One in six adults in England are taking antidepressants. That’s eight million people, yet remarkably even doctors don’t fully understand quite how these drugs actually work. The most popular group of ...

Scientists are also exploring how serotonin produced in the gut reaches cancer cells. Understanding this pathway could allow ...

Going on antidepressants can give many people their life back, but for some there is a catch. About 25% to 80% of people who take antidepressants experience sexual side effects to some degree during ...

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 ...

About eight million people in the UK take some sort of antidepressant for mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. Sometimes these can have problematic side-effects, from rapid changes ...

Latest NHS statistics say 1,846,533 people aged 15-29 were prescribed antidepressants in 2023, compared with 1,404,138 in 2016. The new Oxford University study is looking at how one widely used SSRI, ...

Photo of researcher Kristian Jensen wearing the high-density headset for LDAEP. The headset comprises 256 electrodes, plus earphones; these can give sound tones ranging from around 60dB (which is as ...

Gabapentin has become the 5th most prescribed drug. It's also getting a bad reputation. Here's why it doesn't deserve it, ...

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the perceived beat so that they can tap their feet, nod their heads, or dance along ...

Light therapy lamps, also known as sunset projection lamps or sun lamps, are light boxes that mimic natural sunlight. When they feature the correct lux, a unit measuring the amount of light produced, ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for the first time, Yale researchers have identified where a certain type—known ...