Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system

When I was a kid, I had a lazy eye. Eventually, it was corrected with surgery. During my younger years, I had to wear a patch over my good eye to strengthen the lazy one. Most often, I'd wear the patch while watching television, giving me a good excuse to sit in front of the tube for a long time. ("I'm strengthening my eye.")

New research shows that fluoxetine (Prozac) augments the eye-patch regimen. "Gimme my pills and patch, Ma. I gotta fix my eye."