I’ve been looking at neurogenesis-related blogposts today, and found
the following reference to an interesting article appeared. It’s
actually a year old.
Part of it is the kind of wide-eyed thing tech magazines do too often,
about Elizabeth Gould, the woman who effectively discredited the idea the
neurogenesis doesn’t happen in the adult brain.
The article also talks alot about drugs shown to encourage
neurogenesis. Apparently, antidepressants work by encouraging
neurogenesis rather than the mechanism previously posited. Several
drugs targeted to optimize neurogenesis are being researched.
According to the article, one drug is being targeted to Parkinson’s,
secretively called sNN0031. Mice with Parkinson’s saw a reversal of
symptoms in weeks. That was rat models and Parkinson’s, though, of
course. So, still a ways to go.
