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This is wildly speculative, as expected. Some mice grew dendrites. That doesn't mean anything about humans and doesn't come close to meaning anything about depr
by ameister14 8y ago
This is wildly speculative, as expected. Some mice grew dendrites. That doesn't mean anything about humans and doesn't come close to meaning anything about depression. It's not that simple.
- stinos 8y agoI don't think the claim is 'it's that simple', but rather 'this warrants more research into the subject'. As usual. But that's not a bad thing.
- ameister14 8y agoSure - if the underlying hypothesis that it's the plasticity that makes ketamine effective is true, these things also promote plasticity so it's worth looking into. Speculative news articles like this though mostly serve to have people debate and form opinions well before evidence is presented, though, as is what is happening in this thread. There's a very long road between showing that these drugs promote neuritogenesis and proving their clinical effectiveness.
- benevol 8y agoRead the article. They specifically talk about human brain cells.