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Are Girls More Suffering From Depression Than Men?
During adolescence our brains develop very rapidly. And we also know that during that time thealot of psychiotic disorders are diagnosed. For example, d o women are much more likely, bout twice as likely, to be diagnosed with depression than men are. But why? Well, lina dorfschmidt at the university of cambridge wondered the very same thing. She scanned the brains of a large group of adolescent children to look at which areas changed their patterns of connections the most at this age. In girl s, there was a lot more rewiring going on, particularly in brain circitry that's known to be linked to depression. This, she suspects, might be
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