Depression in an evolutionary context

Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.

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Autor principal: Wolpert, Lewis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18312654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-3-8
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spelling pubmed-22678002008-03-15 Depression in an evolutionary context Wolpert, Lewis Philos Ethics Humanit Med Commentary Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant. BioMed Central 2008-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2267800/ /pubmed/18312654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-3-8 Text en Copyright © 2008 Wolpert; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18312654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-3-8
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