Posted by Rosy Crucifiction on June 28, 2010, at 17:02:43
In reply to Re: The biology of depression: Wolkowitz brings hope » linkadge, posted by SLS on June 28, 2010, at 14:23:08
I would agree, as I think Wolkowitz would, that stress is only one model for depression. What is of greatest interest in his lecture for me is the emphasis on epigentic change. As someone who had an extremely stressful childhood, and is currently highly mood reactive, the notion of a genetic switch triggered in childhood makes sense for a phenomenon otherwise uncontrolled by meds or therapy. Neurogenesis doesn't explain how to unswitch the switch, but it may help explain my depression - particularly when you factor in the hippocampal shrinkage caused by chronic alcohol use.
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