A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...
Early in the pain process, newly generated neurons in the dentate gyrus showed increased activity – suggesting the brain initially mounts a protective response to persistent pain. Over time, however, ...
Changes to one's hippocampus, the brain's memory centre, in response to prolonged pain could be an important factor for why ...
Scientists have uncovered a brain mechanism that may explain why chronic pain leads to depression in some people but not ...
The study, published in the journal Science, analysed brain scans from population cohorts, including data from the UK Biobank ...
It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...
Researchers have discovered a surprising change in how cells produce energy in people with depression. Brain and blood cells in young adults with major depressive disorder produced more energy ...