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Post Mortems Reveal Clear Differences in The Brain Cells of People With Depression – ScienceAlert
A comparison of brain tissues taken from individuals who died by suicide has for the first time linked chronic depression with a stark drop in the number of specific…
A comparison of brain tissues taken from individuals who died by suicide has for the first time linked chronic depression with a stark drop in the number of specific kinds of supportive nerve cells.
While the finding doesn’t demonstrate a cause for the decline, or necessarily describe how higher numbers of cells might protect mental health if at all it does establish a new area of investigation that could one day lead to early diagnosis and treatment for depression.
Researchers from Douglas Mental…
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