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Biology
February 14, 2018

Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Linked to Brain Inflammation

A 2017 article by Sophie E. Holmes and colleagues in the journal Biological Psychiatry reports that people with major unipolar depression, especially those with suicidal thoughts, have higher levels of the inflammatory mar...
Biology
June 22, 2016

Some Evidence of Brain Inflammation in Depression

Many studies have found links between levels of inflammatory molecules in the blood and depression or depressive symptoms. There has been less research about inflammation in the brain and its possible role in depressive il...