Recent research published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research indicates that specific clusters of depressive symptoms are ...

Researchers from Hiroshima University (HU), Japan, have proposed a new explanation for the biological mechanism behind depression, according to a study published in the journal Neuroscience. Currently ...

The discovery of antidepressant drugs led to the first biochemical hypothesis of depression, known as the monoamine hypothesis. However, this hypothesis does not seem to fully explain the complexity ...

Recently, Moncrieff and colleagues published a review of the evidence for the serotonin theory of depression, concluding that there was “no consistent evidence of there being an association between ...

Depression is a complex, heterogeneous disorder, and the mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis are not that clear and are the subject of intensive investigation using pharmacological and genetic ...

Princeton University researchers have observed a self-degradation response to the antidepressant Zoloft in yeast cells that could help provide new answers to lingering questions among scientists about ...

For many years, the prevailing hypothesis of depression has been that a deficit in monoamine neurotransmitters, notably norepinephrine and serotonin, underlies depression. The monoamines are named ...

The discovery of antidepressant drugs in the 1950s led to the first biochemical hypothesis of depression, known as the monoamine hypothesis. This hypothesis proposes that an imbalance of certain brain ...