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Fewer astrocytes in depression? | Liam Anuj O’Leary

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Brain and nervesMental healthDepression and anxietyNeuroscienceCells and molecules

Liam Anuj O’Leary discusses his research finding a widespread decrease of astrocytes in postmortem brain samples of depressed suicide victims.

Learn more about Dr. O’Leary's research by reading his publications: Widespread Decrease of Cerebral Vimentin-Immunoreactive Astrocytes in Depressed Suicides: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.640963/full Characterization of Vimentin-Immunoreactive Astrocytes in the Human Brain: frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2020.00031/full NeuroLingo is a neuroscience outreach initiative founded and managed by graduate students in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University. Visit neurolingo.org/ to learn more. Our channel publishes neuroscience talks featured during NeuroLingo Conferences, where graduate students in Montreal present their own research in an engaging and informative manner. Learn about current neuroscience research. Share our videos with the people you know. Subscribe to our channel (youtube.com/channel/UCt9AZN6QczNlXT1zfyppvdg) and turn on the notification button to stay up to date with our future neuroscience talks. Follow NeuroLingo on Twitter: twitter.com/NeuroLingoMTL Follow NeuroLingo on Instagram: instagram.com/NeuroLingoMTL Like NeuroLingo on Facebook: facebook.com/NeuroLingoMTL

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What people say. Shared to prompt discussion among psychiatrists about the role of glial cells in depression and mental illness.

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For my Neuroscience PhD, I found postmortem brain samples from depressed suicides have far fewer astrocytes. As psychiatrists, are there any typical conditions or cases where you would consider glia are involved? (Study linked in comments)
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