Genetics

Does your genetic inheritance determine whether you will be susceptible to depression?

Could it be that depression, as painful as it is, is actually a defense mechanism and not a disease?

Scientists are closing in on a possible genetic component of depression. Genes in a particular region of chromosome 15 may be responsible, say U.S. researchers.

A Saint Louis University School of Public Health researcher believes there may a genetic link between smoking and depression.

A mutant gene that starves the brain of serotonin, a mood-regulating chemical messenger, has been discovered and found to be 10 times more prevalent in depressed patients than in control subjects, report researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

A study found that genetics plays a bigger role in depression for women than it does for men.