Accelerating Treatment For Depression
The two main challenges in the treatment of depression are firstly, almost 50 percent of patients do not respond well to existing antidepressants and secondly conventional medications take almost three to five weeks to have the desired effect. To tackle the second problem, the researchers used epigenetic modulators to try to erase the consequences of stress.
Epigenetic mechanisms are a part of the complex system, controlling how genes are switched on or off.
The study conducted by a group of researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil is published in the journal