ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2020
From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Nonlinear dose-response effects of exercise interventions on post-stroke depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Associations between maternal birth complications and postpartum depressive symptoms: A systematic narrative review and meta-analysis.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
- The interaction between the immune system and the autonomic nervous system in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder: a scoping review.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Review
- The buffering effect of physical activity on adolescent psychological stress: a cross-sectional survey and a longitudinal follow-up of Chinese adolescents.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Death recollection moderates stress-influenced depression in Thai boarding school students.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Perceived stress, risk factors and prognostic monitoring loci for the development of depression.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Patterns of Respiration Rate Reactivity in Response to a Cognitive Stressor Associate With Self-Reported Mental Health Outcomes.Psychological reports · 2025Article
- The ROCK Inhibitor Fasudil and Sertraline Share Morphological and Molecular Effects in the Hippocampus of Chronically Stressed Rats: Exploring Common Antidepressant Pathways by Network Pharmacology.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2025Article
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- Stress and distress in healthcare students: protective roles of social support, student community and meaningfulness of studying.International journal of medical education · 2024Article
- Quarantine Experience-Based Differences in Factors Associated with Depression Among Koreans During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Interactive Effects of Rejection and Rumination on Diurnal Cortisol among Adolescent Girls: A Preliminary Daily Diary Study.Cognitive therapy and research · 2024Article
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- Resilience resources, life stressors, and postpartum depressive symptoms in a community sample of low and middle-income Black, Latina, and White mothers.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
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- Negative life events and depression by gender in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brazil).Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- The mediator role of the feeling of personal unaccomplishment in the effect of unemployment anxiety on depression: a research on business faculty students in Türkiye.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Discordance Indices of Stress Sensitivity and Trajectories of Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Major gender differences in relations between life stressor frequency and gray matter in adolescence and emerging adulthood.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
One of the most consistent findings in the depression literature is that stressful life events predict the onset and course of depressive episodes. Cognitive and biological responses to life stressors have both been identified, albeit largely independently, as central to understanding the association between stress and depression. I maintain that the largest advances in the understanding of depression will come from examining the ways that cognitive and biological responses to stressors reciprocally influence one another and, in doing so, contribute to the onset and maintenance of depression. I summarize the cognitive and biological stress responses implicated in depression and then describe the reciprocal ways that they are associated with each other. Finally, I discuss the broader implications of taking this integrated approach and suggest directions and considerations for future research.
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