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The Evolutionary Theory of Depression.
Review in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A systematic narrative review of the form, process, and function of sensory hyposensitivity in depression.Translational psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Associations of depression with incident liver and spleen diseases: a retrospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Associations Between Physical Fitness, Cognitive Function, and Depression in Nursing Homes Residents Between 60-100 Years of Age in South-Western Poland.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- CASP3 gene expression and the role of caspase 3 in the pathogenesis of depressive disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Association of Polymorphic Variants in Argonaute Genes with Depression Risk in a Polish Population.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales and Early Maladaptive Schemas in Depressive Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors affecting the evolution of Chinese elderly depression: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Analgesic and Antidepressant Effects of the Clinical Glutamate Modulators Acetyl-L-Carnitine and Ketamine.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Anti-inflammatory IL-10 administration rescues depression-associated learning and memory deficits in mice.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2020Article
- Inflammation, infection and depression: an evolutionary perspective.Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
The evolutionary success of Homo sapiens is attributed to the following two factors: the upright body posture (which freed our hands and allowed unconstrained operation of various objects) and intensive development of the frontal lobes, mainly the Broca area of the brain. Underlining the uniqueness of the human brain, we often forget about the fact that the frontal lobes - the most developed part of the brain - are at the same time our greatest weakness, exposed to the action of damaging factors in our evolving environment. Is depression the cost of evolution?
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