This section of the Ormond Neuroscience Brain Blog contains links to posts that deal with the misery of mood disorders. You’ll find interesting articles on depression, anxiety, bipolar mood disorder, PTSD and other mood disturbances. If you’re battling with a mood disorder, consider reaching out and getting some help from Ormond Neuroscience.
Treating Depression with Vagal Nerve Stimulation
Bioelectric Neuromodulation: Vagal Nerve Stimulation Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is a form of bioelectric neuromodulation, a way of stimulating the…
Mood Disorders and Regulation
Mood disorders and the problem of regulation When we talk about mood disorders, we typically describe them using emotional terms. …
Energy Drink Consumption and Suicide Risk
A large meta-analysis involving more than 1.5 million participants has identified an association between energy drink consumption and suicidal thoughts…
Depression Causes Shrinkage of our Hippocampi
For decades, neuroscience has shown that depression isn’t just a disorder of mood. Depression is also a disorder of brain…
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…
Research shows that Depression isn’t strongly Genetic
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…