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What Science Says About Neuroscience & Mental Health.
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Theses resources teach about the studies that discuss scientific evidence explaining humanity's struggle with Mental Healthf.
Certain areas of the brain help regulate mood. Researchers believe that — more important than levels of specific brain chemicals — nerve cell connections, nerve cell growth, and the functioning of nerve circuits have a major impact on depression.
Major depressive disorder is an illness with significant neurobiological consequences involving structural, functional and molecular alterations in several areas of the brain. Antidepressant pharmacotherapy is associated with restoration of the underlying physiology. Clinicians are advised to intervene with MDD using an early, comprehensive treatment approach that has remission as the goal.
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When we think about depression, what comes to mind are feelings and emotions – or, for some, the absence of feelings and emotions. In order to really understand depression, however, it’s important to be aware that the condition has physical aspects as well. Most people understand what depression looks like on the outside, in terms of a person’s behavior, but our medical understanding of the actual progression of the disease and its treatments continues to evolve.
Mood normally fluctuates. Everyone experiences highs and lows in their lives. Sometimes changes in mood can become long-lasting, debilitating and impair one’s ability to hold down a job or meaningful relationships. Around 10% of people at some point suffer from depression, a mood disorder characterized by: feeling sad, distressed, unmotivated, excessively tired, and losing interest in once pleasurable activities (known as anhedonia). Many with depression also have anxiety.
Neuroimaging studies reveal that many brain circuits that normally regulate mood are dysregulated in depression.