Senior Clinical Lecturer, Critical and Social Psychiatry, UCL
Joanna's research consists of an analysis of all aspects of psychiatric drug treatment, including subjective experiences, history of drug treatment, a critique of evidence for drug treatments, theoretical perspectives on psychiatric drug treatment, and political aspects of drug treatment, including work on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
She is also interested in the nature and function of diagnosis in modern psychiatric practice, and in the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally.
Chemical imbalance theory of depression: clearing up some misconceptions
Aug 24, 2022 10:56 am UTC| Health
The scale of the response to our recent study finding that there was no support for the idea that low serotonin causes depression the so-called chemical imbalance theory of depression was enormous. Our paper is one of...
Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
Jul 23, 2022 16:30 pm UTC| Health
For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research...
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