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18SW13 - Re-evaluating Botanical Medicine Approaches to Depression and Anxiety Format:Audio Plants have been in anSpeaker: Kenneth Proefrock. Depression and anxiety are complex psychiatric disorders that affect 25 30% of the population (a conservative estimate) and come with an enormous social cost. Recent evidence suggests that these disorders are far more complex than ever before appreciated and are products of epigenetic, genetic, and situational circumstances that include neurotransmitter metabolism, altered receptor sensitivity, immunological inputs and