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by sinenomine 1504 days ago
I think the neuroplasticity angle is vastly underestimated, and we should seek (and also design, research & fund if there is none) neuroplasticity-upregulating drugs & therapies.

As far as this field goes, this is a remarkable paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24348349/

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That looks suspect. n=23

2 groups of 12. (one person's data was lost).

No baseline pre-treatment data.

Each group did two trials: VPA then placebo, or vice versa. The VPA-first group did well on VPA, but the VPA-second group did not. Improvement was suggestive but slight.