Can Antidepressants Really Cure Depression?

By Apoorva Jha

A Myth In The Pharmacy Market

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Serotonin is credited for maintaining mood balance, appetite, and motor, cognitive, and autonomic functions. Following the 1980s, low serotonin levels were blamed as sole reasons for depression. Johann Hari and others have put out words that go against this notion. In the year 2015, Medical News Today had reported on an editorial that was printed in The BMJ by an SSRIs critic named Prof. David Healy who debated that depression is a result of low levels of serotonin and that SSRIs increases the serotonin levels is a pharmaceutical myth.