One of the problems with depression as a disorder is that the symptoms never seem to manifest the same. To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, here are some of the DSM IV recognized symptoms of depression: 1) Insomnia or hypersomnia (not sleeping OR sleeping too much) 2) Having no appetite OR […]
Reader David sent me this paper the other day, and asked if I could blog about it. I said ok, maybe, and then I read… …”Gene therapy”… …oooooh… Sounds very cool, doesn’t it? Sounds like the FUTURE! Where’s my JETPACK!!!?!?! But of course “gene therapy” is kind of a buzzword. A lot of people throw […]
Welcome to part 3 in the series of my coverage of LaPlant, et al. 2010. It’s been a long day, and Sci is TIRED. She just ran a 13 hour experiment, and boy is she wiped. But she is also DEVOTED. And also has her teeth well into this paper, and refuses to let go […]
Everyone once in a while, someone sends Sci email. Often it’s silly. This one, however, was very good in that it asked for some clarification on a series of posts that I’ve been working on looking at clinical depression and possible causes and treatments, including neurogenesis in the hippocampus, cell cycle controls, and CREB. And […]
This is somewhat of a followup post. What’s really cool about this paper (to Sci, anyway), is that it brings two different areas that she’s been interested in into one cool glob of SCIENCE. And it helps to explain many of the questions that Sci got in response to two of the papers she has […]
Sci wishes she could begin this post with something clever. But she has a cold. Suffice it to say that this paper is cool and interesting. And also, as Sci has a cold, I expect all of you to read this post out loud to yourselves in suitably stuffy, gluey Sci-voices. (*sniff*) Gur et al. […]
I’m still getting a lot of questions on depression, a lot of misconceptions about how the drugs work. So I’m going to provide a little more information. And this time, you’re also getting PICTURES!