
@article{ref1,
title="Is depression simply a nonspecific response to brain injury?",
journal="Current psychiatry reports",
year="2013",
author="Strakowski, Stephen M. and Adler, Caleb M. and Delbello, Melissa P.",
volume="15",
number="9",
pages="386-386",
abstract="Depressive disorders are among the most common ailments affecting humankind and some of the world's leading causes of medical disability. Despite being common, disabling and a major public health problem, the etiology of depression is unknown. Indeed, investigators have suggested that the causes of depression are multiple and multi-factorial. With these considerations in mind, in this article we examine the hypothesis that our inability to identify the causes of depressive disorders is because depression is a nonspecific epiphenomenon of brain injury or insult arising through multiple pathways.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1523-3812",
doi="10.1007/s11920-013-0386-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0386-z"
}