How stress and depression can shrink the brain

Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Major depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. Now scientists have discovered one reason why this occurs -- a single genetic switch that triggers loss of brain connections in humans and depression in animal models.

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