Resilience factor low in depression, protects mice from stress

Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 12:20 in Health & Medicine

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.

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