As surprising as it may seem, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist thinks antidepressants might help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Yvette Sheline, who runs Penn’s Center for Neuromodulation in Depression and Stress, expected to head down a completely different path when she started studying the relationship between depression and how much amyloid people had in their brains in 2009.
Penn’s Yvette Sheline is running a trial to find a connection.