Posted by gadchik on May 20, 2012, at 14:47:24
In reply to Re: SSRI-Induced Brain Injury / Protracted Withdrawal » gadchik, posted by Phillipa on May 20, 2012, at 9:51:14
"In the first episode of depression, there doesn't seem to be a smaller hippocampus, so this shrinkage has to develop over time. In our animal studies, we found that you can reverse these changes if you stop the stress up to a certain point."
Antidepressant medications can do that by controlling the release of stress hormones such as cortisol. "But there's also evidence that these medications increase cell proliferation in certain brain regions, and one of the attractive mechanisms is an enhancement of a new generation of new nerve cells, which are being replaced all the time in this part of the hippocampus," McEwen says
P, this is from webmdIf your Nerve deny you-
Go above your Nerve- Emily Dickinson
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