One in six adults in England are taking antidepressants. That’s eight million people, yet remarkably even doctors don’t fully ...

About eight million people in the UK take some sort of antidepressant for mental health conditions such as depression and ...

Hyponatremia, or low blood sodium, can lead to dangerous fluid imbalances and cell swelling, potentially causing seizures or ...

After serotonin does its job in the brain, nerve cells reabsorb it. The common antidepressant escitalopram and others that are selective serotonin reuptake-inhibitors, or SSRIs, work by limiting the ...

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

LifeStance Health reports Xanax provides quick anxiety relief but is not suitable for long-term use; alternatives and therapy ...

A leading pharmacist has revealed three anti-depressant medications which leave patients struggling with 'terrible' ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...

For decades, scientists believed Alzheimer’s was driven mainly by sticky protein plaques and tangles in the brain. Now Purdue researchers have revealed a hidden culprit: fat. They found that brain ...

Latest NHS statistics say 1,846,533 people aged 15-29 were prescribed antidepressants in 2023, compared with 1,404,138 in ...

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 ...