This section of the Ormond Neuroscience Brain Blog contains links to posts that deal with the misery of mood disorders. You’ll find intriguing articles on depression, anxiety, bipolar mood disorder, PTSD and other mood disturbances. If you’re battling with a mood disorder, reach out and get some help from Ormond Neuroscience.
Scary Stuff: Energy drinks and suicide risk
Astonishing results from a huge meta-analysis of more than 1.5 million people revealed an association between energy drinks and suicide.…
Depression Causes Shrinkage of our Beautiful Hippocampi
For decades, neuroscience has shown that depression isn’t just a disorder of mood. Unquestionably, depression is also a disorder of…
Happiness in a Pill: Do Antidepressants Really Work?
Do antidepressants really work? Well, for some people with severe major depressive disorder there are some benefits. However, the less…
Turns Out That Depression Isn’t Strongly Genetic After All. Really? Astonishing!
A powerful piece of medical dogma is the notion that depression has genetic roots. This is the idea that if…
Mental Illness, Love and Telomeres
Telomere length predicts lifespan. Now, a new study has shown an association between childhood trauma, shortened telomere length and mental…
Do herpes and inflammation make you cranky?
Confocal microscope image of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Stained with tdTomato, they appear golden! Image courtesy of National Institute on Alcohol…
Was Asperger a bad guy? Did he have Asperger’s?
Startling new evidence shows that Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, was a Nazi sympathiser. He referred mentally…