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Monday, October 28, 2002Whatever the relationship between depression and brain-cell birth, the whole line of research illustrates an important and under-appreciated fact about the nature of depression. "This is not self-indulgence, this is not failure of will," Sapolsky said. "This is as biological a disease as diabetes." To some extent this is true. In some cases of severe depression, the malady goes beyond a person's capacity to change their frame of mind, but there are many other cases in which it doesn't. What if it turns out that we have the ability to influence the growth of our neurons? That "changing our attitude" amounts to changing our neural pathways? It's very likely that this is what happens. It doesn't necessarily follow that depression is beyond the pale of our mind's influence in the same way that diabetes is. posted by Sydney on 10/28/2002 06:48:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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