Diagnosing depression -- Traumatic life events: general issues -- Life events and depression: preliminary issues -- Life events and depression: is there a causal connection -- Genetics and depression -- Gene-environment correlation and interaction in depression -- Monomines and depression -- Stress hormones and depression -- Stress, the brain and depression
Summary
Can traumatic life events cause depression? The authors structure their examination around three major themes: the pathophysiological role of stress in depression; whether or not a subtype of depression exists that is particularly stress-inducible; and, finally, how best to diagnose and treat depression in relation to its biological underpinnings