The article is about a medicine that is an antidepressant, but that makes the brain have changes in different ways, like it makes the new born cells from the brain to mature earlier and faster.
This may have consecuences because if the cells mature before then they will die before so then it makes your brain to loose more and more cells every time that you take the medicine.
This medicine has been used since 1980, and this study was made with mice, they were given the medicine and the mice that were taking it, had more branch-like extensions in their neurons that are important for connecting those neurons with a lot of other ones, so in one way it helps but at the same time it’s making some kind of damage to the brain. But the thing is, that the medicine works when the brain cells mature, so that's what makes people not to be depressed.
I think that if people really need this medicine to not be depressed and it helps them is ok, but if later it becomes a drug for them, then people should think twice when they get it, because then it can be dangerous and can help them not to be depressed but later they would end up being addcits and maybe having brain cells problems, because they can grow slower and will die before, so there are a lot of things that can affect the brain with this type of medicine that at the end it is a drug that makes addict almost all the people that have it.
by: Marcela Murillo Trujano
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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I have always been nervous about drugs like this- I wonder what the long term results are. Does someone have to stay on it forever or can they stay on for only a period of time. I have a lot of questions about this topic!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure Miss Hessian for being honest but as it's a drug I think it is difficult to stop taking it and is worst because if it helps people, then they wouldn't stop taking them to feel better and at the end they would become addictive to this type of medicine.
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