China’s former Olympic champion gymnast Yang Wei has revealed that he suffers from the potentially deadly respiratory condition, sleep apnea, and will have to use a ventilator for the remainder of his life.
Zhejiang University
Depression is commonly associated with cognitive deficits in memory and emotions like sadness. This association alone, however, neglects the intense difference in how subjects perceive others and the world in this mental state. Depressed subjects often perceive their environment in an unsharp and blurry way. That, in turn, affects our emotion, cognition and behavior since we act and think according to the way we perceive. The research teams of SONG Xuemei at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, TAN Zhonglin at the Zhejiang University Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People’s Hospital, and Georg Northoff at the University of Ottawa published an article titled “Reduction of higher-order occipital GABA and impaired visual perception in acute major depressive disorder” online on April 16th in Molecular Psychiatry. This research sheds a novel light on depressed subjects’ perception and its biochemical origins.