Antidepressants, Alzheimer's disease drugs might boost recovery in stroke patients

Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Evidence is mounting that drugs used to treat depression and Alzheimer's disease also can help patients recover from strokes. Speech and physical therapies traditionally have been the mainstays of stroke rehabilitation programs, say researchers, but more than half of stroke survivors are left with some neurological impairment.

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