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[rwac]

Name: The Biochemistry of Depression
Category: BioScience
Date Added: 10 January 2011 - 05:03 AM
Submitter: rwac
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Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes.

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[aLurker]

Fascinating stuff, thanks man. Sapolsky isn't just a science genius, he is a great teacher too. I also enjoyed his "Why zebras don't get ulcers"-video about stress in another thread.

Edited by aLurker, 10 January 2011 - 10:12 AM.

[aLurker]

Here is a documentary about stress. "Stress, portrait of a killer" with Sapolsky.