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id You Know?
Down and Out
•Even when the means are at hand—say, they are offered
an activity that will change their frame of mind—people with low
self-esteem are less inclined than those with high self-esteem to break a
negative mood.
Memory Risk
•Depression appears to create the risk of developing
Alzheimer's disease. Those who have the greatest number of depression
symptoms carrying the greatest risk.
His-N-Her Genes
•Studies show that at least to some degree, susceptibility to
depression rests on different genes in men and women, notably those that
influence resistance to stressful events.
Loss of Nerve
•Stress early in life may create lifelong depression
vulnerability. Animal studies show that maternal deprivation can
permanently alter production of a nerve cell factor that regulates
neuronal growth.
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animal studies,
depression symptoms,
frame of mind,
low self esteem,
maternal deprivation,
men and women,
negative mood,
nerve cell,
nerve stress,
neuronal growth,
stressful events,
susceptibility
