The Biology of Depression
Title: The Biology of Depression
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 530 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Biology of Depression
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 530 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
<Tab/>Depression is a mood disorder or mental illness in which a person experiences a constant depressed mood and diminished interests or pleasure. Symptoms may also include insomnia, weight loss or gain and indecisiveness or loss of ability to concentrate. Everybody faces a depressed mood but clinical depression is a re-occurring disease including multiple episodes, lasting at least two weeks. Many people believe depression is more of a character flaw more
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when it interacts with adrenal glucocorticoid.
<Tab/>The serotonin 5-HT is classified as a key factor of depression and most important are the serotonin 1a receptor (5-HT1a) and serotonin 2a receptor (5-HT2a). Anti-depressants use these factors to keep up the serotonin in the synapses of neurons. When messages fail to communicate and emotions or lost, the emotion turns to a blank state and lack or arousal pleasure or interest.