Can Prozac Cure Lazy Eye?
According to new research prozac, the popular antidepressant, might also be effective in the treatment of “lazy eye”or amblyopia, especially in adults. Prozac can rejuvenate nerve cells linked to vision in the brains of adults. Amblyopia or lazy eye is reduced vision in one eye as a result of sustained period of visual neglect in childhood. One eye appears to be weaker than other eye as it was not used enough in early childhood. New research has found that fluoxetene, the antidepressant marketed as prozac, has been found effective in correcting eyesight’s of rats whose vision was impaired in early development and it could well do the same for humans. In early childhood, the neuronal connections are very plastic, but as the critical period closes this flexibility is greatly reduced. Prozac reopens the critical period of plasticity in the visual cortex, and lateral geniculate body parts of the brain. Prozac helps in returning neurons in the adult brain to a more “plastic” state normally
