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Scientists say they have the part of the brain that is responsible for us miserable, anxious and stressed. A UK-based medical research company Heptares Therapeutics said it has the molecule related to depression. It is a protein inside the brain called CRF1. The company said the protein, "is important in the body's response to stress and is in stress-related diseases such as depression and anxiety". The team one of the world's most powerful x-ray machines in its research. Lead researcher Fiona Marshall said a greater understanding of the CRF1 protein could to ground-breaking drugs to depression.

Britain's National Health Service (NHS) anyone from depression or related illnesses not to get too excited about this research. It whether a single molecule could really to depression, and said the condition actually from a complex interaction of chemicals. An NHS statement surprise at the way two of Britain's biggest newspapers have the story up – "The Daily Mail" and "The Sunday Times". The latter that researchers had found the "miserable molecule," it was "the protein in all our feelings of stress, anxiety and even depression". The NHS said: "It's a great headline, but a hugely sweeping claim."

 
 

 

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