Depression impairs new as well as old memories
2018
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Researchers created a computational model to simulate the brains of patients suffering from depression and showed that depressive episodes can impair both recent memory storage and retrieval by limiting the formation of new brain cells. In addition, it also showed that depressive episodes can erase past stored memories.
The reduction of adult neurogenesis in depression impairs the retrieval of new as well as remote episodic memory
Sen Cheng
Added on: 05-25-2020
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198406
