UCSD researchers find link between teen obesity, depression
Researchers at UC San Diego found that obesity in teen girls is a risk factor for symptoms of depression, but not clinical depression, it was announced Monday. According to the researchers at UCSD's School of Medicine, the study suggests weight status could play a part in the development of depression in some adolescent girls. "This is important, because depressive symptoms are considered a ...
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Mental Illness Linked To Immune Defect
Bone-marrow transplants cure mice of hair-pulling compulsionA Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between immune system cells and mental illness, and points toward eventual new psychiatric treatments."We're showing there is a direct ...
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