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How to Learn Anything So It Sticks & Peculiarities of the Human Brain

Something You Should Know

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Depression and Anxiety - What's Going On?

There's a lot of different options and different options there like you think of in terms of mental health problems the most common ones would be depression and anxiety. The mono amine hypothesis for a while was the one that says it's all to do with an imbalance or a deficiency in neurotransmitters. But more recent data suggests that that is a part that's a part of it but that's actually a small component of the overall. Depression is caused by parts of the brain becoming essentially worn out and not so broken but like overtaxed by constant domination by stress.

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