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  • GABA receptors in brain could be targets to treat depression, its cognitive symptoms

    Aug 3, 2023 10:30 am by Liz Ahlberg TouchstoneResearch
    “Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity’s Gate),” Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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    • “Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity’s Gate),” Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Treatments modulating the neurotransmitter GABA and its main receptors in the brain could help address both the affective and cognitive symptoms associated with depression, such as those Vincent Van Gogh is suspected to have suffered.