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Comments Off comments for post: "Science News » Resilience Factor Low in Depression, Protects Mice From Stress" | Posted on 17. 05. by National Institute of Mental Health

Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, have spurred a high tech dragnet for compounds that boost the action of a key gene regulator there, called deltaFosB. Triggering deltaFosB, which is depleted in post-mortem brains of depressed patients, protected mice from developing a depression-like syndrome following chronic social stress.

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Comments Off comments for post: "Meetings and Events for the Week of May 17 through 23, 2010" | Posted on 14. 05. by City of Phoenix, Arizona

Title:Meetings and Events for the Week of May 17 through 23, 2010

Release Date: 5/14/10 4:23 PM

Author: City of Phoenix, Arizona

Category: phoenix.gov local news

Description: City Meetings and Events for the Coming Week


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Comments Off comments for post: "Science News » Impaired Brain Connections Traced to Schizophrenia Mutation" | Posted on 14. 05. by National Institute of Mental Health

The strongest known recurrent genetic cause of schizophrenia impairs communications between the brain’s decision-making and memory hubs, resulting in working memory deficits, according to a study in mice.

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Comments Off comments for post: "Science News » Family History of Depression Alters Brain’s Response to Reward and Risk" | Posted on 14. 05. by National Institute of Mental Health

Girls at high risk for depression but without current or past clinically significant symptoms showed abnormal brain function related to anticipating and receiving either a reward or loss, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

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Comments Off comments for post: "Science News » Imaging Studies Help Pinpoint Child Bipolar Circuitry" | Posted on 14. 05. by National Institute of Mental Health

A series of imaging studies are revealing that the brain works differently in youth with bipolar disorder (BD) than in chronically irritable children who are often diagnosed with pediatric BD.

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