Andrew Huberman· PhD
On stroke, which we talked about before, enhancing plasticity, you mentioned Prozac, fluoxetine is the name of the agent, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor increases serotonin, and has effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and all the rest. It looked really promising in animals. Many, many published studies did the same thing we did which is why we didn't think our thing was going to work. We took the therapy, which we know is helpful, practice using your paw that's injured, and then add the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, and the animals made progress. And we did it again and again. We did it in monkeys, we did it in cats, we did it in rats, and then we did it in people. And lo and behold, the people got better. And then we did a large scale randomized trial, and it didn't do anything.