Individuals with social phobia have too much serotonin
>> Previous studies have led researchers to believe that individuals with social anxiety disorder or social phobia have too low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. A new study, however, shows that the situation is exactly the opposite.<p>It's stuff like this that is destroying the reputation of science in general. I know it's one thing to "lead to believe" and another to "show that", and perhaps that's what happened here. But every time the accepted explanation does a 180 science dies a little bit. I don't mean the big changes like relativity, but the blatant reversals. Fatty food is bad - no it's good. Carbs are great - no they're not. Drugs pulled from the market that had been "tested".<p>I think a lot of cases are not really reversals, but misunderstandings or incorrect interpretations of results that later get clarified. Not sure what the answer is.