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Author Archives: Andy Lin

Medical News Today: A new culprit in depression?

October 15, 2004

By Andy Lin

October 15, 2004

The brains of people with severe depression have lower levels of several related molecules that are key to the development, organization, growth and repair of the brain than the brains of people without the disease, or those with the bipolar form of depression, a new study finds.

Read the full article at Medical News Today »

Genome News Network: Depression may alter genes that protect neurons

October 15, 2004

By Andy Lin

October 15, 2004

Halfway through a project to document how the brain changes in response to mental illness, researchers have identified a family of genes that is consistently less active in the brains of depressed individuals compared to mentally healthy men and women.

Read the full article at Genome News Network »

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