If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a … - Robert M. Sapolsky

neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.">

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

Robert M. Sapolsky

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic
neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

Appreciate, Characteristic, Depression, Strong, Sunset

Same Author Quotes

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Art, Arts, Awed, Nature, Pain, Subject

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

Doe, Harder, Impulse Control, Long, Planning, Postponement

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this. )

Athletics, Competitive, Exercise, Optimistic, People

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

Hate, Movie, Roller, Scary, Stress, Stressed

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

Animal, Day, Mean, Model, Stress, Troop