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Article: Paroxetine Improves Memory in PTSD Patients.(posttraumatic stress disorder)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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ATLANTA -- Paroxetine improves overall memory and hippocampal-based declarative memory function in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, Dr. Eric Vermetten said at the annual conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
"The hippocampus seems to be the only area of the brain capable of regeneration," said Dr. Vermetten, a postdoctoral fellow in clinical neurosciences at Emory University, Adanta. "Paroxetine may be associated with the reversibility of hippocampal-based declarative memory deficits" in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which has been associated with hippocampal atrophy.
A total of 23 PTSD patients were enrolled in ...