What is depression? [an umbrella term]
Joanna Thompson, The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think, Quanta Magazine, Jan. 26, 2023.
Thompson opens by discussing a recent literature review that cast strong doubt on the idea that depression is the result of serotonin deficiency. She then moves through other chemical theories, to genetics, neural wiring, and inflammation, ending up with:
Increasingly, some scientists are pushing to reframe “depression” as an umbrella term for a suite of related conditions, much as oncologists now think of “cancer” as referring to a legion of distinct but similar ...