Resilience Factor Low In Depression, Protects Mice From Stress, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Study

EurekAlert! -- Scientists have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain resilience to stress, vulnerability to depression and how antidepressants work. The new findings, in the reward circuit of mouse and human brains, have spurred a high tech dragnet for compounds that boost the action of a key gene regulator there, called deltaFosB.

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