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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa — 2020
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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