Relapse in major depression linked to brain cortical changes

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(HealthDay)—For patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), relapse is associated with brain cortical changes over two years, according to a study published online March 28 in JAMA Psychiatry. Dario Zaremba, from the University of Münster in Germany, and colleagues conducted a longitudinal case-control study involving patients with acute MDD at baseline and healthy controls. Participants were subdivided into groups with […]

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Preventing tumors from shedding their identifying proteins allows immune system to attack

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A team of researchers with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the U.S. has found that introducing an antibody into a cancerous mouse model prevented the escape of ligands from a tumor surface allowing natural killer cells to attack. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their technique and how well it […]

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Federal officials urged to increase perinatal depression treatment in minority women

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Despite Latinas’ and African-American women’s increased risks of perinatal depression and the availability of reliable screening tools and national awareness campaigns, research has shown that these women are significantly less likely to be screened or treated. In a new position paper, researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University are urging federal policymakers to appropriate funds to boost diagnosis […]

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Memory researchers link two brain regions to conceptual organization

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If your idea of a perfect dog is an abstract rendering of canine qualities extracted across many encounters in your life, you are not alone in how your brain connects memories, say University of Oregon scientists. A long debate has existed in psychology whether concepts, such as a dog, are represented in the mind as a collection of specific dogs […]

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