serotonin

It nearly depletes your brain's serotonin reserves, and some people don't deal with that very well at all.

It's far from certain though that serotonin has anything to do with depression or neurogenesis.

The linked study shows that serotonin has no clear correlation with depression in an animal model.

Low serotonin can simply be a physical deficiency and not emotional.

When using fluoxetine for research, caution must be taken to separate the effects on the serotonin system from the effects of other functions of fluoxetine.

Even if depression isn't brought on by lack of serotonin, it can still be the case that potentiating the effects of serotonin can reverse depressive symptoms.

Such as turkey, eggs, parmesan cheese may or may not have an effect - at the least they increase the bioavailabity of chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine.

Quote: "New evidence has put into doubt the long-standing belief that a deficiency in serotonin - a chemical messenger in the brain - plays a central role in depression.

" This is because the reaction to serotonin, neurogenesis, goes way beyond sensible memory formation.

Regardless, the serotonin model of depression, the one which produced Prozac etc. isn't the last word, and it's looking more likely that a dearth of new synapses may be the culprit in clinical depression.

It's your body reacting physically to the queasy feeling in your stomach you get of sitting down to do that task you need to do in front of 82 more tasks before you get that serotonin payoff for a job well done.

The long-held serotonin hypothesis has proven to be completely baseless and there is no good evidence that depression has a neurochemical etiology.

This is his summary of the findings on one popular herbal treatment for depression:"Depression is a serious illness; to treat it, scientists have developed medicines that alter brain chemicals such as serotonin.

Someone who finds the dopamine- and serotonin-releasing effects of alcohol as a teenager can become conditioned to look to alcohol to suppress emotional pain instead of learning to look to people for support.