WEB SITE: Depressed brains are less ‘plastic’

…The brains of people with depression show a reduced ability to adapt to their environment, a unique study shows.

The research on ‘neuroplasticity’ and depression, is a collaboration between the Black Dog Institute and Neuroscience Research Australia and is reported online in a recent issue of Neuropsychopharmacology.

“We have demonstrated plasticity is reduced when you’re depressed,” says one of the lead researchers, Professor Colleen Loo, from the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, and colleagues…

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