Research may explain antidepressants' effectiveness
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) The antidepressant Prozac has been shown to restore old brain cells to their more plastic youthful condition in animal experiments, researchers report.
The work not only provides a possible new explanation for the antidepressant activity of the medication but also raises the distant prospect that it could be used to treat other conditions caused by malfunction of brain cells, said study lead author Jose Fernando Maya Vetencourt.