Why Do Antidepressants Cause Brain Zaps?

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. For some people who stop taking an SSRI or SNRI antidepressant, they can get a weird side effect called brain zaps. And even though we've known about them for decades, we still don't know exactly why brain zaps happen. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   Facebook:   / scishow   #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact... https://www.britannica.com/science/sy... https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/dat... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/we... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/... https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19588... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4138... https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19442174 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10889... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4138... https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29758... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://journals.lww.com/psychopharma... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://karger.com/pps/article/87/4/1... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15989562 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30177236 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29758951 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30605268 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35144325 Image Sources https://www.gettyimages.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...