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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250328173532.htm) Discrimination-related depression, anxiety pronounced among multiracial, White, Asian populations
Mar 28th 2025, 17:35

A new study found that over half of US adults experienced some form of discrimination, and individuals with high exposure to discrimination have more than five times the chances of screening positive for depression, and five times the chances of screening positive for anxiety. Compared to adults who do not experience discrimination, adults who do experience this mistreatment have nearly nine times the odds of screening positive for both depression and anxiety.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250328112547.htm) PET imaging confirms direct involvement of dopamine in cognitive flexibility
Mar 28th 2025, 11:25

Scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility. PET imaging shows that the brain increases dopamine production when completing cognitively demanding tasks, and that the more dopamine released, the more efficiently the tasks are completed. Armed with this information, physicians may soon be able to develop more precise treatment strategies for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250325115846.htm) Biological pathway in the brain could help explain why teenage girls are more depressed than boys
Mar 25th 2025, 11:58

Research has shown that a biological brain mechanism called the 'kynurenine pathway' is imbalanced in adolescents with depression, and this imbalance is more pronounced in teenage girls than boys.

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