Episode 126: Depression and Serotonin
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Serotonin and Brain Derivative Neurotrophic Factor
Serotonin is not directly doing anything about depression. It's indirectly having an effect on it through various downstream interactions of metabolic processes. This is consistent with what we sort of expect, right? Ser serotonin is just a neurotransmitter. It's just triggering changes in the postsynaptic cell. The cells that are then going to have the effects on things like mood and behavior and such. And so we need to sort of trace that pathway forwards.
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