New theory links depression to chronic brain inflammation
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
Chronic depression is an adaptive, reparative neurobiological process gone wrong, say two University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, positing in a new theory that the debilitating mental state originates from more ancient mechanisms used by the body to deal with physical injury, such as pain, tissue repair and convalescent behaviour...