Tackling Depression
5 Live Science Podcast
The Effects of Antidepressants on the Brain
If there's nothing wrong with the brain, then what are antidepressants doing to the brain? If they're not correcting an underlying abnormality, and it's not just a little bit uncertain. So why do we carry on using them if this is the case? There was a very concerted campaign starting in the 1990s to change people's common sense views about the nature of depression. And this was led by the pharmaceutical industry, but the medical profession jumped on board.
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