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Stress, Conflict, and Depression

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The Origins of Depression: Current Concepts and Approaches

Part of the book series: Dahlem Workshop Reports Life Sciences Research Report ((DAHLEM LIFE,volume 26))

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Stress and conflict may elicit a syndrome of behavioral and motivational accommodation in rats which resembles the clinical syndrome of depression. The utility of stress, conflict, or related models is constrained both practically and theoretically, however. I review three issues related to stress models, these being their definition, validity, and neurobiology.

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Katz, R.J. (1983). Stress, Conflict, and Depression. In: Angst, J. (eds) The Origins of Depression: Current Concepts and Approaches. Dahlem Workshop Reports Life Sciences Research Report, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69129-4_8

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