Depression and Nutrition

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The food affects the human’s mood. Some products have an influence on production of chemical agents in brain. These agents determine our mood and behavior.
The most influence on our mood has carbohydrates. Getting into the body, they start a range of chemical reactions, at which point a great number of tryptophan gets the brain. The [...]

Antidepressants: mechanisms of action

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

How do antidepressants work?
If do not go into details, antidepressants are able to correct the work of some mechanisms of the brain. Our brain includes a lot of nerve cells – neurons. Although there is a communication between neurons, they do not adjoin each other – there is a chink between them, which is [...]