Brain structure that tracks negative events backfires in depression
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 03:31
in Psychology & Sociology
A region of the brain that responds to bad experiences has the opposite reaction to expectations of aversive events in people with depression compared to healthy adults, finds a new UCL study funded by the Medical Research Council. The study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, found that the habenula, a pea-sized region of the brain, functions […]