August 2011
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Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Depression, and Stress →
For a long time, the idea was that drugs that increased serotonin in the brain helped to relieve depressive symptoms, and so this must mean that depression was caused by low levels of serotonin in the brain (and this is still how you’ll see depression presented in a lot of antidepressant commercials). But it’s not that simple. Just because increasing something in the brain helps to fix a...