Fifty years on: Serotonin and depression.

J Psychopharmacol

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital Oxford, Oxon, UK.

Published: March 2023

It has been over 50 years since the original serotonin hypothesis was proposed by the British Psychiatrist Alec Coppen. Recently, some authors have questioned the validity of the hypothesis. In this narrative review, we summarise the evidence for the serotonin hypothesis of depression, focusing on psychopharmacology and molecular imaging, as well as systems-level neuroscience.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10076339PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811231161813DOI Listing

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