To: Dysart
...when Ronald Duman, a researcher at Yale, showed that antidepressants actually grow brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with memory and mood regulation...
No mention of it, but I wonder if SSRIs have been used in dementia/Alzheimer's patients.
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01/01/2009 3:04:47 PM PST by
stylin19a
( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
To: stylin19a
Oh, yes. Extensively. My Step Father, a retired physician who developed dementia, was prescribed them with no obvious benefit, although we know he was throwing them in trash as often as he swallowed them. He never thought highly of SSRIs even when he was practicing.
4 posted on
01/01/2009 3:09:34 PM PST by
Dysart
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