Depressed Brains May Hate Differently

(Health.com) -- Depressed people are often withdrawn and antisocial. This doesn't necessarily mean that they don't like other people, but it could mean that their brains don't process feelings of hate in a normal way, a new study suggests.

Scientists in China and the UK scanned the brains of people with and without depression, and they found a surprising pattern in nearly all of the depressed people: Their brain activity was out of sync in three regions collectively known as the "hate circuit" -- so called because in previous experiments they have been shown to light up when people look at photographs of someone they can't stand.

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