Discovery of a new biological mechanism for depression

Teams from Paris Descartes University, co-led by Professor Raphaël Gaillard (Sainte Anne Hospital, Institut Pasteur) and Professor Olivier Hermine (Necker Hospital, National Reference Center for Mastocytosis, Institut Imagine) have identified an inflammatory mechanism of depression through the study of a rare disease: mastocytosis. This research was published by Dr Georgin-Lavialle in 2016 in the leading international journal in psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry.

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