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11/09/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Your depression may be caused by chronic brain inflammation

Neurologists still struggle to pinpoint the exact cause of clinical depression but hypothesize that chronic inflammation may be a contributing factor to this debilitating disease. Unlike inflammation found in a physical injury or arthritis, brain inflammation doesn’t cause any pain as the brain has no pain receptors. This doesn’t mean that it’s not there – […]

11/01/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Study looks at the link between inflammation and the spread of Alzheimer’s

Someone in America is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease every 65 seconds. The most common type of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative neurological illness that causes impaired cognition, memory loss and death. Right now, there is no known treatment available that can stop the progression of the disease, and there is no cure. However, scientists […]

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