Brain Quote by Andrew Solomon

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an…

— Irving Kirsch

“Many research studies, as well as my own clinical experience, have confirmed that severely depressed patients who appear very "biologically" depressed with lots of…

— David D. Burns

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But…

— Mark Fisher

“North American society tries to bury many problems under tons of medications, preferring to ignore the social and cultural causes of people’s stressed mental…

— Gabor Maté

“Many people don’t seem to want a detailed explanation of the changes in brain chemistry, of the depletion of neurotransmitters that we find associated…

— Dr Stefan Cembrowicz

“When you are depressed, you have a chemical imbalance in your brain. Thoughts trigger emotions, which dump an overload of stress chemicals into the…

— H. Norman Wright

“In The Depression Cure, Ilardi writes: There’s evidence that depression can leave a toxic imprint on the brain. It can etch its way into…

— H. Norman Wright

“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“There is some evidence that chronic severe depression causes some atrophy or shrinkage in the hippocampus. Depressive illness could therefore be seen as a…

— Dr Stefan Cembrowicz

“Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some of the…

— Edward T. Welch

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are…

— Irving Kirsch