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To: Fishing-guy; jennyp
The fact that it takes at least several weeks for an antidepressant to start working shows, to me at least, that the change in concentration of brain chemicals is not the reason antidepressants work.

Popular Antidepressants Boost Brain Growth, Hopkins Scientists Report (maybe)

As an aside, it req'd something like + - 100 years to figure out exactly how aspirin works.

28 posted on 03/02/2006 6:15:20 AM PST by elli1
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Popular Antidepressants Boost Brain Growth, Hopkins Scientists Report (maybe)

Thanks, that's fascinating! If that's true, then it would suggest that depression takes a long time to develop as well. I suppose it would also suggest that certain kinds of mental exercises or activities (as opposed to others or none at all) would help prevent depression in the first place. I wonder.

34 posted on 03/04/2006 12:33:09 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.)
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