TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Is depression simply a nonspecific response to brain injury?
JO  - Current psychiatry reports
A1  - Strakowski, Stephen M.
A1  - Adler, Caleb M.
A1  - Delbello, Melissa P.
SP  - 386
EP  - 386
VL  - 15
IS  - 9
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1523-3812
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0386-z
ID  - ref1
ER  -