Browsing: Mental Health

Against a backdrop of studies that suggest artificial intelligence (AI) is rewiring our brains, making usstupider, or easing our mental load to the detriment of critical thinking, a new study is set to evaluate whether certain contextual applications can actually make us better at thinking. That was certainly the stance of one panel at Davos…

Every antidepressant approved by the FDA — from Prozac to esketamine to the new wave of psychedelic-derived compounds advancing through late-stage trials — acts inside the brain. SSRIs rebalance serotonin at synapses. NMDA antagonists modulate glutamate. Psilocybin remodels neural plasticity. The assumption built into all of them is that depression is, at root, a disorder…