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Antidepressant May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s

| May 15, 2014 Comment

According to new research, an antidepressant may help to clear away the protein plaque that builds up in Alzheimer’s patients brains, and help slow or even prevent the disease. The antidepressant drug, citalopram, sold as Celexa, was given to older mice with Alzheimer’s-like brain damage. The scientists found that though the existing plaques didn’t go […]

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