Can diet influence our mental health?
In the special feature «Understanding Depression», frames depression as an illness with biological components, including inflammation and oxidative stress, and…
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The other pandemic: depression, a major health challenge of the 21st century
Starts from World Health Organization figures to show how little attention depression receives and challenges the idea of a merely «functional» disorder, describing measurable biological changes such as neuroinflammation and oxidative stress.
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The importance of treating depression, the condition that contributes most to global disability
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