Depressed about the Evolution of Depression
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 18:21
in Psychology & Sociology
A recent paper in Psychological Review on the evolution of depression has been making waves, thanks to another article written by the same two authors, Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., in Scientificish American. The authors put forward the rumination that depression may not be a disorder, but is instead that: . . .depression is an evolved response to complex problems, whose functionis to minimize disruption and sustain analysis of those problems. . . read more
