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The psychodynamic psychotherapist's guide to the interaction among sex, genes, and environmental adversity in the etiology of depression for women.
Psychodynamic psychiatry - 1 Dec 2013
Vigod Simone N, Taylor Valerie H
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From menarche to menopause, women are highly vulnerable to major depression. While biological and psychosocial differences between men and women have been established, the reason for the preponderance of depression in women has yet to be fully elucidated. Women may be predisposed to depressive illness because of biological factors related to brain structure, function, and the impact of reproductive life stages....
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