Elliot Valenstein

Chemical Culprit, Chemical Cure? Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Mental Illness

For almost 40 years, conventional wisdom has been that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. “Serotonin” is a household word, along with Prozac, Zyprexa, and Zoloft.   But recently, there’s been a vigorous debate within the medical community over whether that line of thinking is accurate. This summer Marcia Angell, a […]