Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric ...

This is the first installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, has increased among college ...

SSRIs help improve mental health by blocking the reuptake of serotonin. SNRIs block the uptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine. SSRIs are often used first because they may have fewer side effects ...

Do antidepressants really work? This has been a controversial question ever since the 2008 publication of a research study by Dr. Irving Kirsch and his colleagues that concluded that there was “little ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration on July 21, 2025, a panel convened by the agency cast doubt on the safety of antidepressant medications called selective ...

In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.