Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice: New treatments for mood disorders?
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 16:32
in Health & Medicine
Researchers may have found a clue to the blues that can come with the flu -- depression may be triggered by the same mechanisms that enable the immune system to respond to infection. In a new study, scientists activated the immune system in mice to produce "despair-like" behavior that has similarities to depression in humans.