Title:
Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
Authors:
Joanna Moncrieff
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Critical and Social Psychiatry, University College London (UCL)
&
Mark Horowitz
Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry, University College London (UCL)
Published:
The Conversation, 20 July 2022 [Updated: 21 July 2022]
From the article:
For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain – namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it.