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...Redux and fenfluramine are too powerful for the body to handle--a proposition not fully accepted by some doctors despite the FDA and manufacturers' action--research into serotonin-boosting drugs is hardly slowing down. If anything, the discovery of a new set of side effects will spur researchers to hone their pharmacological handiwork even more, to create medicines that will not just fine-tune the way serotonin is used in the brain but might target specific serotonin receptors as well or act on only specific parts of the brain and nervous system...
...didn't know what serotonin was until I found out I didn't have enough of it. I hadn't been sleeping well--for years, it seemed--and I went to my general practitioner for help. I described a pattern of waking up two or three times every night. "That's textbook," my doctor said. "Textbook what?" I asked. He stunned me by answering, "Textbook depression...
...later feeling terrific. The drug had worked immediately--no waiting period--and it continued to work night after night. What's more, my days were different. Brighter. Smoother. My famously spiky temper tapered off. Like a headache one doesn't know he has until it's gone away, my serotonin deficiency revealed itself only once a drug had filled...
...MADELEINE NASH, our senior science correspondent, reported on the brain's chemical pathways for our cover story on serotonin, a complex substance that influences a wide range of emotion and behavior. She knows the routes well, having written a cover story on another brain chemical, dopamine, and its role in addiction. Last week she looked at the natural antidepressant St. John's wort. Nash brought her usual clear-sightedness to the murky workings of serotonin and the trial-and-error science that brought forth beneficial--and potentially deadly--serotonin-enhancing drugs such as fen/phen. Nash's work...
...HOFFMAN, our new deputy art director, was wary of designing a cover package on something that isn't very visible. "I thought, Here I get to profile a molecule," she says. "How do you make juice out of that?" She did, by gamely examining every aspect and angle of serotonin to produce an informative and visually arresting package. Previously a design director at the Boston Globe, Hoffman doesn't miss the daily deadlines. "Now I can dig more deeply," she says, although at TIME that can mean digging deep into the night. "Cynthia gets to the core of every story...