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• n  a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory

• But forcibly catapulting serotonin levels could be risky.
• But earlier this year neuroscientists complained that the FDA was not being forceful enough in pushing for follow-up studies on another serotonin-type diet pill, Redux, which is .
• serotonin drugs treat everything from depression to overeating, but as we learned last week, tinkering with the chemistry of the brain can be risky.

• 5-hydroxytryptamine

News & Articles

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• AANP Poster Presentation Explores Impact of Baseline Levels of BMI, hsCRP, and MTHFR on Effect of Adjunctive L ...
  An evaluation of the benefits of adjunctive L-methylfolate in patients stratified by specific biomarkers and genotypes who were poorly responding to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors will be the focus of an educational poster presentation at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference in Las Vegas.
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Rat Study Finds Long-term Use of Antidepressants May Hinder Treatment of PTSD, Some Learning
  New animal research suggests long-term use of a class of medicines used to commonly treat depression may have a downside by interfering with a technique used to treat fear and stress. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are antidepressants used to treat depression, as well as a range of anxiety disorders, and a number [...]
  June 13, 2013 - Psych Central
• Relist Watch
  John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted cases. If the last few days of torrential rains have left you feeling more gloomy than an amorphous blob in need of a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, Relist Watch is here as usual to cheer you up. Eventually. First we have to take care of the bad news. Yesterday marked the [...]
  June 12, 2013 - SCOTUSblog

Quotes

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• Paul Greengard in FOXNews
  We're all very excited about this discovery,said Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, a Rockefeller neuroscientist who led the research. "People have been looking for modulators of serotonin for a long time."
• Gordon Parker in ABC Online
  It is true that chocolate acts on the same neurological system as serotonin,Professor Parker said. "But you'd have to eat a truck load of chocolate before you have had the equivalent of one antidepressant tablet. Our review rejects any...