Sentence examples for predisposition to depression from inspiring English sources
There are dozens of reasons why mental illness can develop or intensify, including bereavement, family breakdown and a predisposition to depression.
Michelle Obama, I know you were just trying to help the fat kids in America get nutritious food and feel healthy, and that's great... but what about psychiatric support for children with a predisposition to depression?
A genetic predisposition to depression may be a potential risk factor in the development of depression.
Several contextual factors, including childhood adversity (possibly mediated through increased adult C-reactive protein concentration [ 31]), neighborhood environment, and poverty, also influence the predisposition to depression and diabetes.
Interactions between environmental events and genetic predisposition to depression reduce neurogenesis in the hippocampus (an area which is centrally involved in the storage and accessing of memories that underlie emotional expression), thereby contributing to lowered mood and depression [ 46].
This is likely true for all brain diseases but there is a predisposition to depression in individuals with the premutation even before the onset of FXTAS (Franke et al 1996; Hagerman and Hagerman 2002; Hessl et al 2005).
In this genetic study, we aimed to identify underlying genetic predispositions to depression and thus have not yet tested environmental, health, socio-behavioral or other non-genetic factors.
According to Blatt and Zuroff's [ 12] theory of personality predispositions to depression, individuals with high levels of self-criticality and/or dependency are prone to develop depression after negative life-events.
Given the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis in the aetiology of depression and the changing levels of corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRHR1) during pregnancy, it is likely that the predisposition to perinatal depression might be related to genetic polymorphisms in the hormone receptors.
Here we investigated whether a genetic predisposition to unipolar depression is associated with structural brain changes.
In conclusion, hippocampal volume reduction may index a predisposition to develop depression and thus may be predictive of future onset of the disorder.
