Why do antidepressants dull even the most positive emotions?
For nearly half of patients, common antidepressants cause feelings of emotional dullness. Researchers explain this by showing that these serotonin reuptake drugs affect reinforcement learning, a behavioral process that allows us to learn from our environment. To treat major depressive disorder, anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder, drugs that target the transmission of serotonin – a … Read more