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...promising therapies, pharmacological and otherwise, to supplement what is already available. But while the disease-depression connection is becoming more and more clear, how to uncouple them is an uncharted process. "You would think that treatment would alter the negative relationship between depression and other illness," says Dr. Dennis Charney, head of mood-and anxiety-disorders research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). But, he adds with proper scientific caution, "we don't have proof of that...
Another mechanism may also be at work. It turns out that the heartbeat of a person with depression is unusually steady. That's not necessarily a good thing, says Charney, who co-chaired the DBSA conference. "Ideally, your heart rate should be variable--it means your heart can respond appropriately to the different tasks it's called upon to respond to." Yet another possible link between heart disease and depression is a chemical called C-reactive protein (CRP). The liver normally produces CRP in response to an immune-system alarm when the body is infected or injured...
Unfortunately, the research that may unravel the interplay between depression and other diseases has barely begun. Even though there is a strong statistical link between depression and epilepsy, for example, we know very little about how to treat depression in epileptics. And as Charney has noted, it hasn't been proved, in a rigorous, scientific sense, that treating depression will reduce the excess risks of complication or death from a coexisting illness...
...thought I should find out what I’d be hit for next,” says Charney, who says he was appealing a ticket for a violation he isn’t sure he actually committed...
According to Charney, when he requested a copy of the regulations from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department, an employee turned him down...