Prozac shows promise in recovery from stroke

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When I saw this article, I immediately thought of the quote from the Joseph McCarthy hearings which is "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

In other words, you drugs companies and drug loving physicians will stop at nothing to subject people to cruelty and false hope. If I sound angry and emotional, I plead guilty.

You see, I have a learning disability which affect some neurological functions. That was diagnosed prior to psych meds. Yeah, the meds improved them in the short term just like they are claiming that Prozac does.

But in the long term, they greatly worsened things. That is what will move likely happen to stroke survivors who also take these drugs long term.

By the way, just you know this isn't empty rhetoric, Bob Whitaker has stated that psych meds cause learning disabilities.

By the way, this neuropsych posted information showing that previous studies on Celexa supposedly helping stroke victims weren't all that impressive.

http://chekhovsgun.blogspot.com/2010...ce-stroke.html

But who cares about what works? Let's just keep trying to dupe the public until something sticks. Anyway, exerts from the article:

Giving the antidepressant drug Prozac to people who have just had a stroke could help them to regain more control over their movements and allow more of them to live independently, scientists said Monday.

In the largest study yet of the effect of this type of antidepressant on stroke recovery, French researchers found that stroke patients given Prozac improved their scores in motor skills tests more than those given a placebo, or dummy pill.

Experts commenting on the findings said they had "enormous potential to change clinical practice" and raised the question of whether most stroke patients with motor skill problems should be treated with this relatively cheap type of antidepressant.

Stroke is the single largest cause of adult disability and the third-largest cause of death in the developed world.

The cost of caring for its victims, who often have motor function difficulties like paralysis or weakness on one side, puts a heavy burden on already stretched healthcare systems.

A few previous small trials had already suggested that giving drugs like Prozac, which belongs to a drug class known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), might improve motor skill recovery after stroke.

To read the rest, go to:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70900220110110

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PS - The lies get worse as I found this on webmd, http://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/201...rehabilitation

The study is part of a small but growing cache of evidence that suggests that SSRI antidepressant medications such as Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft may help stroke patients not simply by relieving mood symptoms, which can hinder recovery in their own right by causing people to feel hopeless and tired, but also by helping neurons grow and re-establish connections in the brain that are vital for physical functioning.

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I remember an article last year that said prozac is good to reduce cancer which I have found again here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...th-cancer.html

It really is appaling. Even if it does slow the growth of cancer cells, my bet is because it is slowing everything down in the body and the slowing of cancer is just a side effect of that. Or maybe it makes the cells of the body so toxic even the cancer becomes ill?

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Here is another article with another researcher from the same university with the opposite finding: http://www.liveandgrow.org/ap-prozac-cancer.html

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I found a lot of similar articles when I used to search the internet for "SSRI's and Brain Damage", etc.

It appears the drug companies marketing department keeps sending this "news" out there and people keep printing it.

The thing that brought tears to my eyes was the use of SSRI's and anti-epileptics for people with Traumatic Brain Injuries. Soldiers.

I'm sure when people with TBI's or Stroke survivors have side effects, they'll be blamed on the injuries not the drug. How much harder will it be to make the connection.