This make sense to me as it is, but Ï would not be...

2009-07-01T16:25:22.398-04:00

This make sense to me as it is, but Ï would not be able to see what is the role that depression has here, because I belive stress is the main cause that produces it.
Maybe depression is caused by the repetitive stress expousure. Although this last sentence contradicts the theory that says that depression is an evolutionary adaptation to execively high expectations.

It makes more sense if depression causes this effe...

2009-06-27T17:18:08.310-04:00

It makes more sense if depression causes this effect. Depression is an adaptation to desperate and hopeless situations (i.e. to situations and environments where continued effort to pursue a certain goal will result in either danger or loss of valuable resources.) A mechanism which degenerates the PFC will help to give up unrealistic dreams and unachievable goals. Stress is a state of increased alertness of the body, a physiological response to events that could threaten the organism, and it represents a good trade-off for the self-optimization of contradicting properties (maximal attention and minimal resource usage).

Comments on Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Stress pathways that impair prefrontal cortex.

This make sense to me as it is, but Ï would not be...

It makes more sense if depression causes this effe...