CU Boulder research offers clues to why psychiatric drugs help only some people – News-Medical.net

When it comes to developing drugs for mental illnesses, three confounding challenges exist:

• Men and women experience them differently, with things like depression and anxiety far more common in females.
• A drug that works for one person may not work for another, and side effects abound.

New CU Boulder research, published in the journal eLIfe, sheds light on one reason those individual differences may exist. Turns out a key protein in the brain called AKT may function differently in males than females.
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