Thanks Gulas! Brief excerpts:
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Originally Posted by Science Daily based on the November 2011 issue of Human Brain Mapping
- ...a team from the Centre Émotion-Remédiation et Réalité Virtuelle (Center for Emotion Remediation and Virtual Reality, CNRS / UPMC / CHU Pitié Salpêtrière) has investigated the amygdala, a part of the brain that is hyperactive in individuals suffering from anxiety and depression.
- ...it is accepted that the short form of the [5-HTTLPR] gene triggers a more intense activation of the amygdala, also known as the cerebellar tonsil, a brain structure involved in emotions and in the recognition of danger signals.
- Extrapolated to the field of depression, these results also suggest that psychotherapy -- in particular cognitive therapy, which consists in helping depressed patients to perceive the world differently -- could have diverse cerebral effects depending on certain genes.
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