Dr. Tess Thomas explains why just 10 minutes of morning sunlight outperforms your daily coffee ritual for mood enhancement by triggering vitamin D production and boosting serotonin levels. This ...

Serotonin can be made only after sweet or starchy carbohydrates are eaten. More than 30 years ago, extensive studies at MIT carried out by Richard Wurtman, M.D., showed that tryptophan, the ...

Although serotonin signaling had been implicated in mating behavior by previous work, this new study shows that it's not so much the behavior that's affected, but how it's directed.

Individuals with social phobia make too much serotonin. The more serotonin they produce, the more anxious they are in social situations. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

The new Michel Houellebecq novel, “Serotonin,” is an exhausted and exhausting book. It makes you wonder if he has played out his string as a fiction writer. The narrator is Florent-Claude ...

Serotonin is known to regulate digestion at multiple levels within the human gastrointestinal, and up to 95% of the mood-regulating hormone is released into the gut by certain intestinal cells ...

Serotonin Mediates Behavioral Gregarization Underlying Swarm Formation in Desert Locusts Science, 323 (5914), 627-630 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165939. More on locusts and serotonin: ...

The chemical serotonin is most commonly known as a mood regulator—in the human brain, it is believed to help promote feelings of happiness and is often studied in conjunction with mood disorders ...

Serotonin and dopamine do not function independently of one another. Instead, they work together to create complex patterns of behavior. "When one neurotransmitter is altered, ...

“This deficit in serotonin could explain some of the symptoms of long COVID in a subset of patients,” he adds. Many of the symptoms of long COVID are central or brain symptoms, says Dr. Sachdev.