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Depression for Surviving Ancestral Hardships

2019-10-25

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<p>Although researchers have attempted to explain depression as an evolutionary adaptation, those prior attempts have been incomplete at explaining the phenomena and ineffective at providing treatment tools. The discussion provided here attempts to improve the theory and point to effective tools. Depression dims hope and leads to a reduction in most non-essential human behaviors: sexual interest fades, and pleasur...

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Literature Corpus work: b78ebaed-48dc-5f23-8b07-e4ed0a7f2c29
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/m9pq2

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