For questions regarding depressed mood, whether in healthy individuals or those for which the condition manifests as a disorder.
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Does medication to treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder reduce associated cognitive deficits?
Some studies point to existence of cognitive deficits in OCD (it seems that these deficits are not comorbid but have the same neurological roots as OCD). Unfortunately I found no studies with positive ...
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Is happiness a result of cognitive or a side effect of neurobiological processes? [closed]
This morning I've heard this talk on Ted.com:
Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
The presenter is discussing an iPhone app used to track happiness, and seems to draw a ...
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What causes people to feel depressed without there being a problem?
I have noticed that some people have lives that appear perfectly fine, yet they feel depressed. In my specific case the feeling typically lasts for a few days and then magically disappears, only to ...
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For depression diagnoses, does one make a clear distinction between endogenous and exogenous causes of depression?
Roughly speaking, we might imagine that people have depression predominantly for one of two reasons:
Endogenously induced: The person has some inherent inballance between different ...
