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Post Antidepressant Elavil Impersonates Brain?s Growth Factors
(Psych Central News) The widely used antidepressant and pain medication amitriptyline (Elavil) can seemingly impersonate the brain's own growth factors, researchers have shown.Amitriptyline (Elavil), a tricyclic antidepressant first introduced in the 1960s, and other tricyclics are thought to exert their effects ... ...


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