Single SSRI dose changes the brain
22nd September 2014
By Amanda Davey
A single dose of SSRI medication is enough to produce dramatic changes in the functional architecture of the human brain, research shows.
Brain scans taken of people before and after an acute dose of escitalopram reveal changes in connectivity within three hours, say researchers who report their observations Current Biology.
“We were not expecting the SSRI to have such a prominent effect on such a short timescale for the resulting signal to