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Joining The Dots: Neurobiological Links In A Functional Analysis Of Depression, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika
Joining The Dots: Neurobiological Links In A Functional Analysis Of Depression, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika
Vicki Bitsika
Depression is one of the major contributors to the Total Disease Burden and afflicts about one-sixth of Western populations. One of the most effective treatments for depression focuses upon analysis of causal chains in overt behaviour, but does not include brain-related phenomena as steps along these causal pathways. Recent research findings regarding the neurobiological concomitants of depressive behaviour suggest a sequence of structural and functional alterations to the brain which may also produce a beneficial outcome for the depressed individual--that of adaptive withdrawal from uncontrollable aversive stressors. Linking these brain-based explanations to models of observable contingencies for depressive behaviour can …
Evaluation Of The Revised Effects Of University Study On Lifestyle Questionnaire (R-Euslq) Upon Students' Anxiety And Depression, Vicki Bitsika, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Holmes
Evaluation Of The Revised Effects Of University Study On Lifestyle Questionnaire (R-Euslq) Upon Students' Anxiety And Depression, Vicki Bitsika, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Holmes
Vicki Bitsika
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Is Depression 'Evolutionary' Or Just 'Adaptive'? A Comment, Christoper F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika
Is Depression 'Evolutionary' Or Just 'Adaptive'? A Comment, Christoper F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika
Vicki Bitsika
Some recent explanations of depression have suggested that it may be “evolutionary” in that there are advantages to the depressed individual which arise from some aspects of depressive symptomatology. While the depressive behaviour of withdrawal from the adverse environment may provide some immediate benefits to the depressed individual, thus making it potentially “adaptive” in the short-term, this does not fit the biological definition of “evolutionary”. In fact, depression does not meet two of the three required criteria from natural selection in order to be evolutionary. Therefore, while some depressive behaviour may be advantageous for the depressed individual, and is therefore …