Antidepressants change your brain, period. Shocking? Yes, especially for patients taking them on a daily basis. "We were not expecting the SSRI to have such a prominent effect on such a short timescale or for the resulting signal to encompass the entire brain," says Julia Sacher of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.
When scanning the connectivity between neurons it became evident that after taking Lexapro neuronal circuitry became disengaged. Meaning, the inherent connections made within the brain were reduced in patients taking an antidepressant. The significance of this discovery rests in its ability to inform us of the brain alterations which occur in depressed patients, and perhaps why certain medications work while others do not.
See the full article published in Current Biology by clicking here.
When scanning the connectivity between neurons it became evident that after taking Lexapro neuronal circuitry became disengaged. Meaning, the inherent connections made within the brain were reduced in patients taking an antidepressant. The significance of this discovery rests in its ability to inform us of the brain alterations which occur in depressed patients, and perhaps why certain medications work while others do not.
See the full article published in Current Biology by clicking here.
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