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Hi all-- In today's Pgh Post Gazette DEPRESSION LINKED TO BRAIN AREA CONTROLLING EMOTIONS The area of the brain that controls emotion may be abnormally small in = people who suffer depression or other mood disorders. Whether this shortage of gray matter is the cause or the effect of depre= ssion is unknown, said Dr. Wayne Drevets of the University of Pgh Medical= Ct. The area, called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, controls the flow of = brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine that keep emotions in chec= k. In depressed patients it is not only undersized but underactive, Drev= ets said. For more info see todays issue of the journal Nature. Margie