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Brain research sheds light on the molecular mechanisms of depression:
Researchers of the national Turku PET Centre have shown that the opioid system in the brain is connected to mood changes associated with depression and anxiety.
Depression and anxiety are typically associated with lowered mood and decreased experience of pleasure. Opioids regulate the feelings of pain and pleasure in the brain. The new study conducted in Turku shows that the symptoms associated with depression and anxiety are connected to changes in the brain's opioid system already in healthy individuals.
- We found that the more depressive and anxious symptoms the subjects had, the less opioid receptors there were in their brain.
[...] These results show that the mood changes indicating depression can be detected in the brain already early on.
Journal Reference:
Lauri Nummenmaa, Tomi Karjalainen, Janne Isojärvi, et al. Lowered endogenous mu-opioid receptor availability in subclinical depression and anxiety, Neuropsychopharmacology (DOI: 10.1038/s41386-020-0725-9)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday June 19 2020, @02:08AM (1 child)
Or, like Greta Thunberg realized, carelessness towards the environment could get most or even all of us killed. Generation Z has reason to be depressed.
Disasters do happen. Civilizations have fallen. It can happen because people didn't know the dangers, but too often it's when everyone gets reckless and ignores the warnings. Drink the Kool-aid, believe in indestructibility, even do stuff to hasten Doom. If it's impossible to do lasting harm, why not?
Then, if you survive the collapse, spend the rest of your life in misery, on the roughest camping and hunting trip ever that will never end and which grows harder and harder as your tools break one by one from endless, hard usage, your irreplaceable supplies dwindle, and starvation looms because living off the land is nigh impossible because it's f*cked. And the whole time realize that the world wasn't unsinkable after all, and that you didn't appreciate just how good you had it before you helped ruin everything. Such thoughts might drive you into suicidal depression, and you might even give up and kill yourself, because you really are a special snowflake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @02:46AM
Are you saying external factors such as the water temp, can reduce opioid receptors in mah brain, better get some mor in there, increased dosage gonna grow mor receptors bru+