Most of us realize
poorly controlled diabetes may lead to blindness and the same is true for
poorly controlled hypertension causing stroke. Complications of mental
disorders such as anxiety, depression and pain are equally alarming for
untreated anxiety leads to depression poorly controlled depression and pain cause
premature death and brain atrophy.
The interesting
finding lately has been the discovery that most depressions are complications
of other brain conditions among them
diabetes multiple sclerosis chronic pain and amygdala dysfunction. The figure
below shows how many different medical conditions may lead to prefrontal cortex
dysfunction and depression.
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