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A potential new class of fast-acting antidepressant

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Physics & Mathematics

Eat More, Weigh Less: Worm Study Provides Clues to Better Fat-Loss Therapies for Humans

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Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

New model for probing antidepressant actions

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The most widely prescribed antidepressants — medicines such as Prozac, Lexapro and Paxil — work by blocking the serotonin transporter, a brain protein that normally clears away the mood-regulating chemical serotonin. Or so the current thinking g…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice

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Vanderbilt University researchers may have found a clue to the blues that can come with the flu — depression may be triggered by the same mechanisms that enable the immune system to respond to infection.
In a study in the December issue of Neurop…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Euthymics presents phase II data for EB-1010 in major depression at ACNP annual meeting

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Euthymics Bioscience, Inc. today will present Phase II clinical data demonstrating that its lead product candidate EB-1010, a next-generation antidepressant, is effective for treating major depressive disorder (MDD) based on multiple standard measur…

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Circuit regulating anti-diabetic actions of serotonin uncovered by UT Southwestern researchers

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DALLAS — Nov. 11, 2010 — New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggest that serotonin — a brain chemical known to help regulate emotion, mood and sleep — might also have anti-diabetic properties.
The findings, app…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology

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