Feeling down today? Move around more at work and you may be able to shake more than those few extra pounds. You may well be able to shake off the slumps. It’s quite commonly known that to move more will increase blood flow to the brain. New research now affirms that changes in brain blood flow influences depression. 
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Led by led by Omer Bonne at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in
Earlier research showed cerebral blood flow in depressed patients as lower than in healthy control subjects, especially in frontal, limbic and subcortical brain areas. What news is added by this research?
It was discovered that improvement in clinical depression was accompanied by changes in cerebral blood flow.
Specifically …
Brain blood flow increased only in patients whose depression improved. In contrast, cerebral blood flow remained unchanged in patients whose depression hung on.
Check out the details of the study in the August issue of Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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