Posted by jdawg on October 10, 2004, at 22:33:55
In reply to what *else* increases BDNF, posted by linkadge on October 10, 2004, at 16:11:42
Psychotherapy might affect it. But you can't do that experiment -- there is no way to detect it non-invasively in the human brain and you can't do psychotherapy on a rat. But people have scanned the brains of patients that have taken anti-depressants and compared them to those receiving psychotherapy (CBT, I think). Both groups had similar changes in their brains, and both groups recovered from depression.
> Ok, so we know that AD's, ECT, lithium and exercise increase BDNF.
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> What else increases BDNF. Is there anything new that anyone else has discovered ??
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> Personally, I think that BDNF enhancement is the cure to depression.
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