Summer Rerun: SSRI-ously? Separating Fact From Fiction On SSRIs

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:20.0	Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.
0:26.8	We're your host, Dr. Jess Steyer, and Dr. Sarah Scheinman.
0:31.1	And today, we are tackling a topic that is all over the news, a topic near and dear to my Lexapro heart, SSRIs. And we have a
0:43.0	very special guest joining us, Dr. Ben Ryan, who is an expert in all things neuroscience. So I feel
0:52.2	like I'm, I have two neuroscience geniuses with me. So I'm going to be
0:57.5	doing a lot of listening and learning on, on today's episode. But no, I'm really excited to get
1:03.2	into this. Lots of questions out there, some misconceptions, some myths, some wild claims. So we're going to get into all of it. Ben, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Really excited for this. All right. I'm going to read your bio, which is hella impressive. I'm just going to preface it with that. It's lofty. It is. It is lofty. But I want to read it. It's really, it's so good. Okay.
1:29.3	It is. I feel like a bit of an underachiever reading this. For real. All right. Dr. Ben Ryan,
1:34.9	Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and science communicator whose research has focused on the neurobiology of social interactions. He has published over 20 scientific papers and peer-reviewed scientific journals about
1:47.3	the neuroscience of empathy, the genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder, and how
1:52.0	communication between brain cells regulates social interactions.
1:56.3	While working at Stanford University, Ben characterized how MDMA acts in the brain to enhance empathy.
2:03.1	So many questions about that.
2:05.0	His research has been honored with awards from the NIH, the Society for Neuroscience, and Sigma Zai.
2:11.0	Outside of the lab, Ben creates educational science videos for an audience of over one million social media followers.
2:19.4	His videos summarize recent research papers, teach neuroscience basics, and debunked viral
2:24.8	videos containing misinformation. No shortage of that these days. Seriously. They've received over
2:30.3	60 million views and have been featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, and other major media outlets.
2:36.9	He's been profiled by popular mechanics and Spectrum News, appeared on entertainment tonight,
2:42.5	and joined over 40 podcasts, including StarTalk with 41.
2:46.4	Oh, is that English one?
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