New model for probing antidepressant actions

Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 06:20 in Health & Medicine

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 goes...

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