Depression and light-on-the-right
 

And I would also bet that depressed people are more apt to be leftists...

Yes, I'm serious....

JimB

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who have a high family risk of developing depression had less brain matter on the right side of their brains on par with losses seen in Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Brain scans showed a 28-percent thinning in the right cortex -- the outer layer of the brain -- in people who had a family history of depression compared with people who did not.

"The difference was so great that at first we almost didn't believe it. But we checked and re-checked all of our data, and we looked for all possible alternative explanations, and still the difference was there," said Dr. Bradley Peterson of Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

His study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings are based on imaging studies of 131 people aged 6 to 54 with and without a family history of depression."

Http://www.reuters.com/article/healt...ame=healthNews