Bibliograph

Depression, Jonathan Rottenberg

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Depression, Jonathan Rottenberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Depression

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Rottenberg

Series statement

What everyone needs to know

Summary

Depression is at its core a kind of mood state. Mood states organize our minds and our bodies and motivate us to pursue goals. It is possible to understand depression by focusing on the scientific principles that explain why humans and other organisms have mood. A key goal is to become a more educated consumer of one's own mood and to understand the forces that operate on mood more generally. This framework can allow us to understand why people become depressed, why depression has occurred over human history, and why depression might be epidemic in some periods in human history, including the present day

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