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Fluoxetine does not improve brain recovery after acute stroke – News-Medical.Net
The antidepressant fluoxetine has been suggested as a means to improve brain recovery after acute stroke.
The antidepressant fluoxetine has been suggested as a means to improve brain recovery after acute stroke. However, a large randomized study on stroke patients at 35 Swedish hospitals shows that the drug has no such effect. The study, which was led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is published in The Lancet Neurology.
Every year almost 14 million people around the world suffer a stroke, and half of those who survive end up with a permanent functional impairment. Research on animals and s…
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