Cognitive vulnerability to depression : genetic and environmental influences
Antypa, N.
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Antypa, N. (2011, June 21). Cognitive vulnerability to depression : genetic and environmental influences. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/17719
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Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Genetic and Environmental Influences Niki Antypa
1. The ease with which people activate negative thoughts and/or process stimuli in the environment in a negative way is related to their vulnerability to depression.
2. Genetic variation on the serotonin transporter gene interacts with environmental stressors to determine a person’s vulnerability to depression or resilience.
3. Suicidal tendencies (expressed as hopelessness or aggression) can be reactivated in recovered depressed individuals when their mood is challenged, even when the depressive episode is over.
4. Omega-3 fatty acids can have small effects on mood and cognition of individuals, but the pathways through which this happens remain to be investigated.
5. Although we know a lot about the depressive syndrome, we still don’t know the
‘modus operandi’ that will trigger the next episode.
6. Depression has the tendency to recur, but also to remit. Research investigating the factors that play a role in the natural remission of depression will help us identify protective elements and understand possible differences between normality and disorder.
7. Research findings on the genetics of depression can be subject to popular misunderstanding and this is likely to have societal implications.
8. Nutrition plays a role in mental health and in synergy with other environmental factors (eg. sunlight) may constitute a preventive approach to depression.
9. There is more to a Mediterranean lifestyle than diet, and more to a Mediterranean diet than fatty acids.
10. Wij zijn meer dan ons brein.
11. Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ διατριβή µακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή (adapted from Hippocrates).
12. Life is too short to live in the dark.
