Fear, Anxiety, Depression: One Puzzle Piece

The UI research team found that disrupting ASIC1a -- an ion channel protein found in the brain -- produced an antidepressant-like effect in mice. The effect was similar to that produced by currently available antidepressant drugs, but the team also showed that ASIC1a's effect arose through a new and different biological mechanism. _POThis approach to the study of anxiety and depression promises to bring about entirely new therapies for these disorders. Several years are likely to pass before ASIC1a-based treatments are on the market, but given the growing costs of mood and anxiety disorders to health care systems around the world, useful leads for researchers to follow can only help.
In the meantime, large numbers of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for anxiety and depression are available.
Labels: anxiety, depression
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For some reason, nowadays our society still has a stereotype that depression - is just a weak will and lack of organization, and only few realize that depression - is a disease that requires serious treatment. Unfortunately, antidepressants are not always able to save from depression, though they can reduce some pain. Not physical, but psychical.
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