Could Antidepressants Prevent Age-Related Cognitive and Sensory Decline?

U.S. scientists suggest that the antidepressant fluoxetine may represent a new approach to holding back sensory and cognitive decline that occur as a natural part of aging in the brain. Research in mice by Ronen Eavri, Ph.D., and a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, found that normal brain aging is associated with a reduction in the ability of inhibitory interneurons to change and adapt, rather than with a decline in the abs