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Depression and the Birth and Death of Brain Cells
The turnover of neurons in the hippocampus might help to explain the onset of and recovery from clinical depression
Henriette van Praag, Barry Jacobs, Fred Gage
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by Princeton University and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The authors would also like to thank Steve Forbes, Lynne Moore, Bobbi Miller and Linda Kitabayashi for their excellent technical assistance. Special thanks to Mary Lynn Gage for crucial reading of this manuscript. The authors are grateful for continued support from the Hollfelder Foundation, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation and a grant and contract from the National Institutes of Health.
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