Preventing Alzheimer's disease — with an antidepressant

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Citalopram, an antidepressant better known by its commercial name Celexa, has a remarkable side effect, a new study has found: In both mice bred to develop Alzheimer's disease and in healthy human volunteers, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, or SSRI, drives down the production of a...

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