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Volume 155, Number 20 (May 15, 1999)

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Depression, sadness yield brain linkFull Text

Distinct brain areas involved in emotion and attention together seem to foster depression as well as ordinary bouts of sadness.

References:

Mayberg, H.S., et al. 1999. Reciprocal limbic-cortical function and negative mood: Converging PET findings in depression and normal sadness. American Journal of Psychiatry 156(May):675.

Nemeroff, C.B., C.D. Kilts, and G.S. Berns. 1999. Functional brain imaging: Twenty-first century phrenology or psychobiological advance for the millennium? American Journal of Psychiatry 156(May):671.

Sources:

Helen S. Mayberg
Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest Centre
3560 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario M6A 2E1
Canada

Charles B. Nemeroff
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Atlanta, GA 30322

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 20, May 15, 1999, p. 308. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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