Anti-inflammatory drugs ‘could fight depression’ (The Guardian) [View all]
Scientists at seven UK universities are to set up a research consortium aimed at exploiting a newly discovered link between immune disorders and mental illness.
The connection raises hopes that anti-inflammatory drugs can be adapted to treat patients with depression or senile dementia.
The group – which involves researchers at Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Oxford, Southampton and Sussex and King’s College London – has been given £5m backing by the Wellcome Trust and pharmaceutical companies have also pledged support.
“Recent evidence has shown, overwhelmingly, that there is a link between depression and inflammation triggered by the body’s immune behaviour in the body,” said the consortium’s leader, neuroscientist Professor Ed Bullmore, of Cambridge University.
Link: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/20/anti-inflammatory-drugs-could-fight-depression-immune-disorders
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