Depression predisposes to panoply of infectious, autoimmune, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders, and to cancer.  Relatively recent additions include diabetes mellitus, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases, seizure disorders, chronic obstructive lung disease, congestive heart failure, and cancer. The intensity of depression appears to correlate...

The Breakthrough: (Abstract) Adult patients with Down syndrome show psychological symptoms and early senility. Improving their environment and dealing with their complaints and stress should first address their behavioral problems, such as self-injury, depression, aggression and outbursts. Pharmacological treatment may also be tried for behavioral disorders. Individuals...

Prostaglandins are ephemeral, infinitesimal, and powerful molecules regulating every physiological process and microanatomical structure of every cell; when up regulated, physiology becomes pathology, the variations determined by genes. Prostaglandins are composed primarily of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, with a configuration resembling a hairpin.    Enter, “prostaglandins”...