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Joanna Moncrieff

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British psychiatrist at University College London and a long-standing critic of the chemical-imbalance model of depression. Her 2022 umbrella review in Molecular Psychiatry, surveying decades of serotonin research, found no convincing evidence that depressed people have lower serotonin than the rest of the population. The paper triggered a fierce, still-running debate about how SSRIs work and how their effects should be communicated to patients.

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