Joanna Moncrieff takes aim at the pervasive myth that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Is there any reliable evidence for the chemical imbalance hypothesis?
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For decades, we have been told that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and that antidepressants work by addressing this imbalance. Millions have decided to take antidepressants on this basis. Join psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff as she argues that this is false and that the "chemical imbalance" story is completely unsupported by the evidence, and explores how the power of human bias can shape what passes as scientific knowledge.
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Joanna Moncrieff is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, and a consultant psychiatrist for the NHS. She is also a founding member and co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network. Her most recent book is Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.
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