This is a post to index the Sapolsky lecture on depression
Depression
Neuropenepherine
Serotonin
Limbic System
Stress Response
Appetite
thyroid
ruminating
sex hormones
cortisol
stress
melancholia
aggression
learned helplessness
heritability
"Simplistic idea: Cortex is getting the rest of the brain to go along with the "idea" that the body has been seriously injured" - Depressed = cortex going along with "abstract pleasure"
Genetic factor pre-disposes us to depression when you are exposed to major stress. Gene involved in cortisol
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Tuesday, 30 August 2016
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