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One of them is amblyopia, the "lazy eye" condition in which one eye is weaker than the other, because it was not used enough in early childhood, he said.
It's much too early to say when, whether or how Prozac, whose generic name is fluoxetine, could be used in such treatments, Vetencourt said. It's also too early to say whether other members of the chemical family of antidepressants to which Prozac belongs have the same youth-restoring ability, or whether other antidepressants do the same thing, he said.
His study colleagues, who included researchers in Finland, have begun to study "the expression of genes which may be correlated to the functional changes," he said.
Efficacy of pharmacological treatments of neuropathic pain: Of these, at least four were randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. Prozac 20 mg hard capsules contain the active substance fluoxetine which is one of a group of medicines called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors SSRI antidepressants. Content of the pack and other information. The facts and conclusions presented may have since changed and may no longer be accurate. He finds women are more likely than men to admit to depression. Treatment with Prozac should only be started at least 2 weeks after discontinuation of an irreversible, non-selective MAOI for instance tranylcypromine.
Amblyopia was listed as a possible target, because the experiments were aimed at the brain cells governing vision. Vetencourt and his colleagues gave regular doses of Prozac to adult rats whose vision had been impaired by lack of exposure to visual images at a critical period in their early development. Tests showed changes in brain protein expression and electrical signaling typical of younger brain cells and recovery of vision by the animals.
Future experiments will try to determine whether the same treatment will have a similar effect on brain cells governing functions other than vision, Vetencourt said. Research indicates that too many GPs still see mood-altering drugs as a quick fix. After my own fleeting experience of the impact of such drugs, I find myself indulging guiltily in a new guessing game. The colleague who has put on weight and seems uncharacteristically placid: Distant, disconnected and medicated to the eyeballs, they are a new breed of Stepford Wife.
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How can they be good mothers? Or friends, workers and lovers? No, nor did I guess that one of my oldest friends was.
Our heart-to-hearts had disappeared, and she seemed suddenly to have lost all interest in swapping anecdotes. Just as I was about to confront her, she confided that her children leaving home had plunged her into depression and she was on medication. He knows that from the moment he prescribes an antidepressant, he is committed to following up that person. He has a point but the problem is that the drugs have become so popular that the determined patient can easily obtain them without their GP ever knowing. Others get theirs on the internet.
And there is a conspiracy of silence over this. Today, people are more furtive about medication of this kind.
Greer also points out that under-prescription risks our welfare as much as over-prescription: He finds women are more likely than men to admit to depression. They are also more susceptible to it, agrees Dr Wolman. Women in their forties going into their fifties are particularly vulnerable to this, given their declining level of oestrogen.
It can provoke a physical crisis that no amount of therapy can cure.
Dr Pemberton says that middle-aged women are affected because, generally, they face a series of losses: Damian Thompson, whose recent book The Fix analyses our growing dependence on mood-altering drugs and other substances , agrees that our world has changed dramatically as a result of so many relying on antidepressants and tranquillisers. Why do we do it? I believe it is because we feel entitled to happiness as no other generation has done before.