Erschienen in:
01.09.2013 | Mood Disorders (SM Strakowski, Section Editor)
Is Depression Simply a Nonspecific Response to Brain Injury?
verfasst von:
Stephen M. Strakowski, Caleb M. Adler, Melissa P. DelBello
Erschienen in:
Current Psychiatry Reports
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Ausgabe 9/2013
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Abstract
Depressive disorders are among the most common ailments affecting humankind and some of the world’s leading causes of medical disability. Despite being common, disabling and a major public health problem, the etiology of depression is unknown. Indeed, investigators have suggested that the causes of depression are multiple and multi-factorial. With these considerations in mind, in this article we examine the hypothesis that our inability to identify the causes of depressive disorders is because depression is a nonspecific epiphenomenon of brain injury or insult arising through multiple pathways.