“They found no convincing evidence that lower levels of serotonin caused or were even associated with depression.”
More than 80% of the public blames depression on a “chemical imbalance.” Joanna Moncrieff’s team screened 361 papers and found nothing tying low serotonin to the disease. Pharma sold Prozac on that story for decades, and textbooks still repeat it. The pills get prescribed on a mechanism nobody can find.