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Inflammation May Be Causing Depression in About One-Third of Patients

According to the study authors, high levels of inflammation is associated with a “failure to communicate” between two parts of the brain—the ventral striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Related: 24 Questions People With Mental Illness Wish You’d Ask These results, which were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, also indicate that chronic inflammation can affect the brain in ways that are connected with stubborn symptoms of depression, such as anhedonia (defined as the inab