{"id":677,"date":"2017-08-14T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=677"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:49:30","slug":"the-problem-with-ssris-in-treating-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with SSRI&#8217;s in Treating Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSRI&#8217;s, (<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, \u00a0<\/span>have been around for more than 50 years and have been readily prescribed to treat mild to moderate depression, even though their effectiveness is questionable. \u00a0The idea behind SSRI&#8217;s is that depression is &#8217;caused&#8217; by a lack of serotonin in the synapses between brain cells. \u00a0It was thought that SSRI&#8217;s would increase the amount of serotonin by \u00a0inhibiting the process of cellular re-absorbtion. \u00a0However, recent research has shown that the brains of people with depression do not have less serotonin than neuro-typical brains, but more! \u00a0So, in effect, those people taking SSRI&#8217;s are making things worse, which could help explain why those taking SSRI&#8217;s for the first time feel more depressed the first two weeks after starting SSRI&#8217;s. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0149763415000287?via%3Dihub\">Click here to read more of the research. <\/a>\u00a0Is there an alternative to depression meds? \u00a0Absolutely! \u00a0How about teaching the brain to function better? \u00a0We do this with Neurofeedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSRI&#8217;s, (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, \u00a0have been around for more than 50 years and have been readily prescribed to treat mild to moderate depression, even though their effectiveness is questionable. \u00a0The idea behind SSRI&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,64],"tags":[6,28,27,82],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-2","category-neurofeedback","tag-depression","tag-depression-treatment","tag-neurofeedback","tag-ssri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}