The human brain is depressed

A US study found that in people with severe depression, the brain's biological clock is broken, according to the Daily Mail on May 14.

The human brain acts as a watch, keeping the cell working in sync with the outside world, controlling appetite, sleep and mood.

A new study found in depressed human brain, this clock is broken.

It is the study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences after studying the difference in the brain of depressed and non-depressed people.

The human brain acts like a clock - (Photo: Shutterstock)

The team found that many genes in different areas of the brain also have their daily rhythm.

In the normal human brain, the gene's activity pattern is so special that researchers can base it on that to determine a person's death time.

In a severely depressed human brain, the brain's biological clock is broken; The pattern of day and night activity of the gene is reversed.

Dr. Jun Li at the Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan (USA), and his colleagues studied 12,000 genes from six different regions of 55 brains of people without depression.

This information helps the team better understand how different genes work at different times of the day.

When they conducted a similar study on the brains of 34 depressed people, they found that the biological clocks of these brains seemed completely different, even reversing between day and night.