The Role of Dopamine in Depression

The brain is so complicated that we tend to be really careful when we're talking about causes. We can say very generally it's a dysfunction of brain circuits, and if we want to be more specific, we would say in some cases we are able to measure dopamine abnormalities. But we wouldn't go so far as to say that's the definitive and only cause of depression. Dopamine is neither good nor bad. It's very powerful, very beneficial, but also dangerous.

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