MRI Reveals Relationship Between Depression And Pain

The brains of individuals with major depressive disorder appear to react more strongly when anticipating pain and also display altered functioning of the neural network that modifies pain sensitivity, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “Chronic pain and depression are common and often overlapping syndromes,” the authors write as background information in the article.

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Filed under: Depression on November 7th, 2008