Previously depressed young adults have hyperconnected emotional and cognitive brain networks, especially in the regions related to rumination.Medical Daily
Scientists have measured brain activity in young people with and without depression, and found that the brains of depressed adolescents give a muted reaction to distressing images. Previous research with depressed adults does not show this effect, implying that brain development in adolescence may have...
Daniella Furman explained, "In addition to decreased connectivity between emotion processing regions of the brain, we found that depression was linked to an increase in connectivity between the dorsal caudate and an area of the prefrontal cortex. Deep within the brain, the caudate is thought to be...
The present study examined electrical brain activity during expression of negative and positive emotions in infants of depressed and nondepressed mothers. Infants, 11 to 17 months of age, were exposed to conditions designed to elicit positive and negative emotions while electroencephalographic (EEG) ...
Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor: Determinants and relationship with depressive symptoms in a community population of middle-aged and elderly people Objectives. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is involved in major depressive disorder and neurodegenerative diseases. Clinical studies, showing dec...
Differential brain effects of laser and needle acupuncture at LR8 using functional MRI Objective While needle acupuncture is a well-accepted technique, laser acupuncture is being increasingly used in clinical practice. The differential effect... I Quah-Smith,MA Williams,T Lundeberg,... - 《Acupunctu...
A series of complex statistical methods were employed to predict the "average trajectories of depressive symptoms" among about 15,000 people of various ages. That large group was divided into three cohorts according to life stage: young adulthood, midlife, and old age. Researchers were also sure...
Promising insights from brain perfusion studies in depressed patients with heart failure: Linking the brain with the heartdoi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.03.026Mary PrincipRoland von KnelJelena-Rima GhadriChristian TemplinInternational Journal of Cardiology...
In the new study, published in the journalMolecular Psychiatry, Sodhi and her coworkers analyzedbrain tissuefrom people who had suffered from depression. Both females and males were compared to subjects who had never experienced psychiatric illness. Many of the depressed patients, she said, had di...
criticism hurts. The findings were largely the same for young people who were suffering from feelings of depression. "But we did see more activity in, among others, the hippocampus, the region of the brain that is important for our memory. This could mean that young people with depression we...