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Nature Neuroscience  8, 701 - 703 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nn0605-701

Blue genes: wiring the brain for depression

Stephan Hamann

Stephan Hamann is in the Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 North Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. shamann@emory.edu

How do genes act in the brain to influence susceptibility to mental illness? An imaging study suggests that healthy carriers of a gene variant associated with depression risk have decreased brain volume and neural coupling in affective circuitry involved in depression.

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