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Biology
December 14, 2016

Brain Inflammation Found in Autopsy Studies of Teen and Adult Suicides

Suicide and depression have both been linked to elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid. A recent study finds that these inflammatory markers are also elevated in the brains of teens ...
Biology
December 6, 2016

Certain Types of Inflammation and BMI Predict Depression

At the 2016 meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, researcher Femke Lamers and colleagues presented findings from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety. The inflammatory markers interleukin-6 and CRP we...
Biology
September 16, 2015

Blood and Now Brain Inflammation Linked to Depression

There is growing evidence of a link between inflammation of depression. At the 2015 meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, researcher Jeff Meyer summarized past studies on inflammatory markers. These are measurem...