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Mice's Mechanism for Postpartum Depression Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism in the brains of mice that could explain why some human mothers become depressed following childbirth. The discovery could lead to improved treatment for postpartum depression. Supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, of the National Institutes of Health, the study used genetically engineered mice lacking a protein critical for adapting to the sex hormone fluctuations of pregnancy and the postpartum period. (source: nimh.nih.gov)
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