Inflammation is the natural response activated by our immune system to protect the body from disease and infection. A new study published in the JAMA Psychiatry journal suggests that inflammation in the brain is linked to clinical depression. This study shows that clinical depression may result in severe inflammation in the brain.
The team of researchers from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health’s Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, conducted positron emission tomography (PET) with 20 major depressive episode (MDE) patients secondary to depression and 20 healthy participants without any mental disorder and non-smokers.
The scan gives compelling evidence about microglial activation, in MDE which is responsible for inflammation in brain cells. The finding suggests that the therapeutics used for minimizing the microglial activation would be more effective in treating patients with MDE.
The team of researchers from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health’s Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, conducted positron emission tomography (PET) with 20 major depressive episode (MDE) patients secondary to depression and 20 healthy participants without any mental disorder and non-smokers.
The scan gives compelling evidence about microglial activation, in MDE which is responsible for inflammation in brain cells. The finding suggests that the therapeutics used for minimizing the microglial activation would be more effective in treating patients with MDE.
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