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...

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