On paper, I had it all together. Behind my mind’s closed doors, I was completely broken apart.” An insightful new memoir on ...

Among those taken as prescribed since age 14, “there were the antipsychotics: Seroquel, Geodon, Zyprexa ... Irritable bowel syndrome. Total loss of sexual function… The seventy-pound weight ...

and Tourette syndrome. A few of the most common antipsychotics include olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole, ...

1 Endocrinology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy 2 Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Background: ...

Serotonin syndrome is a preventable, drug-related complication that results from increased brain-stem serotonin activity, usually precipitated by the use of one or more serotonergic drugs.

Exercise is one of the most effective ways to increase serotonin naturally because exercise increases the availability of tryptophan – a precursor to serotonin – in the brain and promotes the release ...

Because of the increasing use of psychopharmacologic drugs known to increase serotonin neurotransmission, such as SSRIs, and the increasing incidence of polypharmacy, some predict that more cases ...

While serotonin is often associated with happiness, too much serotonin can lead to serotonin syndrome, a potentially dangerous condition causing agitation, confusion, increased heart rate ...

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome can cause symptoms such as nausea, headaches, diarrhea, or even reoccurrence of ...