Posted by SLS on June 24, 2011, at 5:47:45
In reply to Re: Ketamine mechanism: Rapid AD response., posted by Hombre on June 24, 2011, at 5:32:38
> But is it the production of BDNF that causes the antidepressant effect,
That is what the authors of the paper suggest.
> I will say this, the cognitive effects of depression and chronic stress/anxiety are profound, but rarely discussed.
I might get a few negative replies to saying this, but for many people with depression, the cognitive impairments are the prominent symptoms. They are nothing short of DEMENTIA.
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de·men·tia (d-mnsh)
n.1. Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes."
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DEMENTIA is a generic term as described above and need not be of the Alzheimers type.Your observations regarding the speaking of a foreign language mirrors my own.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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