People with severe depression have a disrupted
“biological clock” that makes it seem as if they are living in a
different time zone to the rest of the healthy population living
alongside them, a study has found.
The findings suggest that patients with severe depression could be
better treated if there was some way of improving the relationship
between the daily cycle of gene activity of the brain with the actual
time of day or night, they said.
To their surprise, the scientists found that with the healthy brains
they could estimate to within a couple of hours the time of a person's
death... "Most of our subjects were awake on the day of
their death, due to last-hour medical emergencies, or, in the case of
some depression cases, due to suicide attempt," Dr Li said.
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