Applied Pharmacology & Neuroscience
The mechanism
behind the headline.
Pharmacology and neuroscience simplified. The mechanisms behind the drugs, the claims, and the headlines, without turning the science into a lecture.
Formerly built on AAS pharmacology. Now expanding into the full breadth of applied pharmacology — psychiatric drugs, neurodegeneration, drug metabolism, and everything between.
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Every claim, traced back to the paper it came from.
Rebuttal
SSRIs vs. What's Next
Monoamine reuptake inhibition made sense in 1987. Esketamine, zuranolone, and psilocybin argue for something else entirely.
Full script + fact-check and others
Evolutionary Psychiatry
Reser's Evolutionary Theory of Autism
Analyzing the evolutionary trade-offs and adaptive hypotheses behind neurodevelopmental variation.
Reser et al., 2011 and others
Rebuttal / SSRI Safety
SSRI Efficacy & The "Long-Term Trial" Myth
Debunking claims about the lack of long-term placebo controls and examining what trials actually demonstrate about SSRI efficacy.
Cipriani et al., 2018 and others
Neurogenesis
The Neurons You Weren't Born With
Bomb-pulse carbon-14 dating says your hippocampus is younger than you think.
Spalding et al., 2013 and others
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