Understanding how antidepressants work and affect your brain is a crucial first step in making informed decisions about your mental health care. Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed ...

Natural antidepressants are substances like herbs, plants, and dietary supplements that have been researched for potential antidepressant properties. They can be an effective tool in a depression ...

Antidepressants like Prozac are commonly prescribed to treat mental health disorders, but new research suggests they could also protect against serious infections and life-threatening sepsis.

In animal studies, boosting serotonin in the cells that line the gut reduced anxious and depressive-like behaviors without causing cognitive or gastrointestinal side effects. Most of us have ...

(CNN) — When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answered questions about his stances on antidepressants at a recent US Senate confirmation hearing before becoming US Health and Human Services secretary, he sparked ...

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing number of commentators claiming that antidepressants don’t work, that pharmaceutical companies lied, and that these drugs are overprescribed ...

We've all heard the idea that depression involves a chemical imbalance in the brain. Perhaps it comes from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter serotonin. We've also been told that antidepressants ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration on July 21, 2025, a panel convened by the agency cast doubt on the safety of antidepressant medications called selective ...

Can’t take the heat? Your medication might be to blame. Doctors are warning that people taking certain antidepressants could be at risk of serious health problems as temperatures soar into the triple ...