Depression Information
Depression is a common illness, affecting more than 17 million people in the US each year.
Although the exact cause of depression is not known most researchers believe it to be due to a chemical “imbalance” in the brain.
Antidepressant medications work to reestablish the balance of “neurotransmitter chemicals” in the brain.
Counselling plays a key role to help patients plan effective behavioral strategies to combat their depression.
Psychopaths' Brains May Focus Solely on Reward
Scanning study suggests fixation on achieving goals, regardless of consequences. A new study suggests that the brain's reward system, which makes us feel good when we get things we want and need, could hold insight into why some people are psychopaths.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., used brain scans to find evidence that the brain reward system is hypersensitive in people who show more latent signs of psychopathic personality disorder.
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