Etiologies of Depression Biological Etiologies Evolution -it signifies to others around you that you need help (Hagen); the symptoms are a call for help from others -a survival instinct to help the species continue on -suicide or threat of suicide: a cry for social help -enhancing the helping instinct in next generations -natural selection -helps find potential mates to decide what genes to pass on Genes -twin studies (Nurnberger and Gershon) -5HTT -a short allele that
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serotonin reuptake inhibitors as a treatment for depression in children and adolescents. The aim of the study is to test the effect of fluoxetine in the acute treatment of depression. The effects were determined by a randomized double blind control trial in which the control group were compared to the placebo group. The main findings of the article were that the control group given the SSRI fluoxetine showed greater improvements in terms of treatment of depression than the placebo group‚ and the SSRI showed
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apply outside the sample/population studied. 1. In “Gender Differences in Depression”‚ by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema‚ the subject of depression is discussed in brief detail covering the general stressors placed on each sex and the differing response by each as well as some gender specific stressors. In short‚ she claims that females suffer more stressful experiences which‚ in turn‚ give women a higher susceptibility to depression. For example‚ socially‚ women are less dominate and have to suffer the adverse
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Were the American people affected by the events of the depression and how did the United States come out of it? After a long time of prosperity and positivism the United States was put in despair on black Tuesday 29th of October 1929. On that day the stock market crashed and that was the start of the Great Depression. The prices dropped and there was no hope to get back. All that people tried to do was to sell their stock just to collect their money back‚ but unfortunately their plan didn’t
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study of planned or unplanned pregnancy to postpartum depression. The study will determine which factors can be considered as the most prevalent for postpartum depression. The descriptive quantitative method of research design establishes association between variables. This research design is being utilized to determine the relationship between the independent variable (planned and unplanned) and the dependent variable (postpartum depression). Research Environment The study is
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Material The Great Depression Part 1 Complete the chart by filling in each president’s views on the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt Causes of the Great Depression *Weak agricultural and industrial growth in the US was due to foreign competition with domestic businesses‚ and a solution that helped both domestic and foreign economies grow mutually was not necessary. *The lack of individual and voluntary response to the depression‚ especially response
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Speak is a teen novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ it’s the story of freshman Melinda Sordino. Everybody in her high school doesn’t like her because last summer she went to a party and called the cops. Ever since she doesn’t speak and has no friends because she doesn’t want to tell anybody the truth. She later on gets the courage to say something because one of her ex-best friends is going out with popular senior named Andy Evans. We find out later in the book that Melinda was raped by Andy
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Shaun Johnson ECO The Great Depression During the Great Depression‚ farm prices were low although farm costs were high. This led to many farmers throwing away tons of product to try and drive the price up. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was the president‚ and many people blamed mostly everything on him. The economy crashed and in the beginning many tried to hide their poverty. In order to qualify for welfare‚ you could not have a car‚ radio‚ or a telephone. Also in some states you couldn’t even vote
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Speak‚ Laurie Halse Anderson “Speak” is book about a young girl who loses her voice after being raped and slowly gains it back over time. Laurie Halse Anderson uses an internal voice throughout the book to show the havoc that is attacking Melinda’s mind. This adds to the theme of being outcast and isolated because the she has no one to really talk to. One reason she is an outcaste is that she called the cops at the part where she was raped. This leads her to lose her group of friends “the Plain
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Depression is not only a state of being sad‚ it is a disease that conquers the ability to feel emotion‚ whether good or bad‚ whatsoever. Depression not only involves the mind‚ it also involves the body and thoughts. Depression is not a disease that only influences males or children of the age three to eleven. Every human being is prone to depression. Although women are three times more likely to become depressed than men‚ men are five times more likely to commit suicide when depressed than women
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