Brain scans of children who have parents or siblings with the illness reveal a neural circuitry that is hyperactivated or stressed by tasks that peers with no family history of the illness seem to handle with ease.
The findings could lead to new mental health therapies for disorders such as addiction, anxiety, and depression.
This study by UNC School of Medicine researchers is the first to report the impact of common gene variants on brain structure in newborns.
Alzheimer's, Genetics, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Publications, Research
The UNC Department of Psychiatry and the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders have opened a 5-bed unit for women with moderate to severe post-partum depression (PPD). The unit is the first of its kind in the United States.
