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

Unbiased Science

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:33.4	Thank you. Welcome to Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.
0:56.2	We're your host, Dr. Jess Steyer, and Dr. Sarah Scheinman.
1:01.2	And today, we are tackling a topic that is all over the news, a topic near and dear to my Lexapro heart, SSRIs.
1:11.6	And we have a very special guest joining us, Dr. Ben Ryan,
1:16.6	who is an expert in all things neuroscience.
1:21.6	So I feel like I'm, I have two neuroscience geniuses with me.
1:26.6	So I'm going to be doing a lot of listening and learning
1:29.0	on today's episode. But no, I'm really excited to get into this. Lots of questions out there,
1:36.7	some misconceptions, some myths, some wild claims. So we're going to get into all of it. Ben,
1:44.0	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. It is. I feel like a bit of an underachiever
2:01.1	reading this. For real. All right. Dr. Ben Ryan, PhD, is a neuroscientist and science
2:07.4	communicator whose research has focused on the neurobiology of social interactions.
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