12.21.2005

Popular Antidepressants Boost Brain Growth, Hopkins Scientists Report

"Antidepressants, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, have long been thought to exert their clinical effects by increasing synaptic concentrations of serotonin and norepinephrine, enhancing or stimulating their transference.

?But our findings -- that serotonin reuptake modulators increase the density of nerve synapses, especially in the front part of the brain - may offer a better explanation of why antidepressants are effective and why they take time to work,? according to Koliatsos."link - ScienceDaily:

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