Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Anti-Depressant Reduces Alzheimer’s Plaque Growth by 78 Percent

How closely is your doctor following this to prevent your 33% chance of getting dementia/Alzheimers post stroke?
Does your doctor even know about this?
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2014/05/anti-depressant-reduces-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-plaque-growth-78-percent? 

A common antidepressant can dramatically halt growth of Alzheimer’s plaque.
A team from Missouri and Pennsylvania report today in Science Translational Medicine this reduction occurs in both humans and mice. It gives the drug, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram, a possible future role as a prophylactic—the first in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), if bigger studies are supportive.
“I was surprised the effect on plaque growth and prevention in transgenic mice was so large,” first author Yvette Sheline told Bioscience Technology. Sheline is director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuromodulation in Depression and Stress. “We are hopeful that we can proceed in a systematic way to develop a preventive treatment for AD.”

More at link.

No comments:

Post a Comment