Scientists Find Brain Circuit That Locks Alcohol Users in Addiction Cycle

Scientists have pinpointed a hidden brain circuit that may explain why withdrawal drives people back to alcohol.
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Study finds key brain area drives alcohol-seeking to escape withdrawal stress

What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and well-being? A new study from Scripps Research offers an important clue: a small midline brain ...
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Unpacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas about antidepressants and violence

Editor’s note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 to connect with a trained ...
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HMNC Brain Health Hoping to Resurrect Antidepressant With Genetics-Guided Strategy

NEW YORK – HMNC Brain Health is weighing how best to advance a previously abandoned experimental antidepressant into Phase III development with the help of a genetic test. The Munich, Germany-based ...

I’m a doctor and this is how I came off antidepressants to stop my world exploding

When Dr Mark Horowitz, an Australian psychiatrist and researcher based in London, tried to slowly come off the medication he ...
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Stopping SSRIs can be hard. Researchers are unsure why

More than 1 in 10 people in the United States take an antidepressant. And the most commonly prescribed type of antidepressant are SSRIs – or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. That's like Zoloft ...
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Stopping SSRIs can be hard. Researchers are unsure why

More than 1 in 10 people in the United States take an antidepressant. And the most commonly prescribed type of antidepressant are SSRIs — or... Stopping SSRIs can be hard. Researchers are unsure why ...