Depression .. And its impact on the child
Although it is difficult to imagine a small child suffering from depression, this is a common and dealt with many of the studies psychiatry. But the ages of 4 to 6 years (preschool) has not received adequate studies, it may be difficult to detect depression in this at such an early age. A recent study conducted by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Washington, United States, Washington university school of medicine, that part is responsible for the organization of emotions in the brain for children in pre-school, who suffer from depression, different from their peers from healthy children.
* Different brain functions * The study technique was used MRI to detect differences in the brain for young children, revealed the existence of a difference in brain function and an increase in activity for the gathering neurotransmitter in the brain is similar in composition fruit almond amygdale important part in the organization of emotions in the brain, for children in pre-school who suffer from depression, which sets off alarm bells need to pay attention to the problems of early children's psychological and try to remedy them. The system studies fMRI fMRI have been conducted on adults and adolescents, but there were not enough studies for pre-school children in this age group, especially that any small movement can lead to erroneous results. Therefore, the researchers, similar to 'dress rehearsal' first; where there was what looked like an X, was to tell the children not to move, and ensure the safety of the procedure.
The researchers conducted the study on 54 children aged between 4 and 6 years, and 23 of them had been diagnosed earlier that they are infected with depression, and the rest (31) of normal children.
It is noteworthy that children depressed patients were not taking any anti-depressants Antidepressants. During the study X-functional children has given the picture and object reflects several feelings, such as joy, anger, fear, and regular expressions. The surprise was that children who suffer from depression appeared to have increased activity in the region responsible for emotions when they see all the pictures faces regardless of the nature of expression either joy or anger or sadness, compared to their peers than healthy children, which clearly indicates that depression alters and functional neural activity of the brain, which can cause psychological problems later in adolescence or adulthood, especially a child who suffers from depression, mostly suffering from depression in adulthood as well.
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