Keeping a consistent daily schedule, getting outside (even briefly), and prioritizing physical activity can help stabilize mood and boost energy before spring arrives. Reframing winter as a season for ...

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A lot of things can affect your mood — diet, exercise, stress, and even the weather. Inside your body, a brain chemical called serotonin can also impact your mood. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that ...

ATLANTA - When it comes to understanding what causes major depressive disorder, Emory psychiatrist Dr. Boadie Dunlop says the answer is complicated. "We're talking about the most complex organ, or ...

Serotonin and mental health Some medications used to manage mental health conditions work by changing how your brain uses serotonin. Early theories suggested that chronic low serotonin is the main ...

Imagine your brain is Instagram. Then serotonin—a neurotransmitter that governs your mood—is the tech that allows one brain nerve cell to slip into another’s DMs. These messages tell your body what to ...

There is no convincing evidence that low serotonin levels are the primary cause of depression. This is the conclusion of an "exhaustive" review by UK investigators, which upends the widely held belief ...

A study on serotonin depression titled "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence" has been published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Researchers from the ...

Could antidepressants hold the key to treating long COVID? University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a link between long COVID and levels of serotonin in the body that may offer a new ...

A recent paper in Cell caught my eye for its original research on serotonin reduction in Long COVID. Wong et al wrote: “Several hypotheses have been formulated to explain the etiology of PASC ...

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers identify a pathophysiological mechanism linking serotonin reduction to the multifaceted etiology of post-acute sequelae of the coronavirus disease 2019 ...