How Untreated Depression Changes the Brain Over Time

Years of untreated depression may lead to neurodegenerative levels of brain inflammation. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study showing evidence of lasting biological changes in the brain for those suffering with depression for more than a decade.

The study findings are from the same research team that originally identified a link between brain inflammation and depression. Along with subsequent research, the findings have started to change the thinking about depression treatments. Evidence is

Being Fat makes you Forgetful: study

That spare tire around your waist may also be weighing down your memory.

 

Experts believe that added fat changes the structure and function of the brain, including its ability to recall past events with episodic memory.

Women are drinking more and more as gap with men narrows: study

It’s Ladies Night — more than you may have realized.

More women are knocking back alcohol — and doing it more often — even as men are drinking less and more rarely, according to a new survey.

 

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism study