Reversing memory loss

New therapeutic drug could be reversing memory loss associated with age-related or mental health disorders. Memory loss is a characteristic yet debilitating symptom that occurs as a result of many neurodegenerative and age-related diseases as well as mental health disorders. There is currently no effective treatment available for clinical use. In a series of papers, the latest being recently published in Molecular Neuropsychiatry, researchers from Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (ON, Canada) have identified the specific impairments that occur to GABAergic neurons in memory-loss and demonstrated the ability of new therapeutic molecules to act on these targets and...