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The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, showed that Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) antidepressants have the potential to improve certain cognitive functions, such as verbal memory...
Serotonin is often described as a feel good chemical, and higher levels of serotonin circulating in the brain contribute to a sense of well-being, and can ease clinical depression in most sufferers...
Researchers from the Copenhagen University Hospital in the Netherlands measured brain function in 90 patients before and after taking the SSRI escitalopram daily for eight weeks...
The results showed that the levels of 5HT4 receptor had dropped by around 9 per cent in the brain and the mood of the patients also improved...
This phenomenon was particularly prominent for the ability to recall words, the researchers said.. SSRI medication may be an important pro-cognitive target to consider in optimising outcomes of antidepressant treatment, said researcher Vibeke Dam at the Copenhagen University Hospital...
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