Reply #4: Not true. Look up hippocampus & SSRI. They actually encourage the [View All]

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growth of new neurons there (that have been worn down by depression). The hippocampus is where new memories go to be formed. That is why some people go from mousy and tentative to robust. They are a life changer.

As to their use in people for various other reasons... I do not know. All I know is that people used to live depressed for 40 years. Their lives and the lives of those around them were diminished. Now there is treatment.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Today's medicine does do amazing things at times. The question is not about getting rid of pharmaceuticals monopolies, because we need them to do the research, the question is how to keep corporations from making all the decisions about our own political, social & cultural lives and how human beings should or should not use regulations. There business is sell drugs & research. Not running government. Or running religion.


http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/psychopharmacology/a/neurogenesis.htm