Normal Emotional Processing Breaks Down In Clinical Depression, Brain Imaging Reveals

August 20th, 2007 | Category: Depression

Brain imaging has revealed a breakdown in normal patterns of emotional processing that impairs the ability of humans with clinical depression to suppress negative emotional states. Efforts by depressed patients to suppress their feelings when viewing emotionally negative images enhanced activity in

several brain areas, including the amygdala, known to play a role in generating emotion, according to a report in The Journal of Neuroscience. [click link for full article]

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