Researchers In Japan Finds Mood Stabilizing Drugs Activate Neural Stem Cells
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
A research team at the Japan National Institute of Physiologic Sciences announced May 27 that they found anti-depression mood stabilizing drugs can activate and increase neural stem cells. The group hopes the research will lead to the discovery of new treatments for brain damage caused by external injury or disease. Mood stabilizing drugs contain chemicals such as lithium and valproic acid. After three weeks, the number of brain neural stem cells of all the mice who received mood stabilizing drugs increased 1.5 over the control group. Neural stem cells increased 2.4 times in mice given lithium (Click here for more - Japanese language