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Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power - Softcover

Lambert, Kelly

 
9780465018147: Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465018149 ISBN 13: 9780465018147
Verlag: Basic Books, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Today's young adults are up to ten times more likely to experience depression than their grandparents were. Could it be that in our increasingly automated world, the reduced physical effort needed to accomplish anything may somehow interfere with our level of happiness and subsequent responses to stress? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds compelling evidence that having to work hard for rewards significantly improves mood and prevents depression. Beginning with her innovative research on rats-she compared "trust-fund rats" (whose rewards came with no effort on their part) to hard-working "trained-to-succeed" rodents-Lambert offers hope of treatment for people without debilitating (and often ineffective) drugs. Drawing on a wealth of information from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, Lambert develops a unique theory suggesting that physical effort directed toward tangible outcomes activates particular regions of the brain and builds resilience against the emotional emptiness and negative thinking associated with depression. Whereas most therapies emphasize the importance of mental activity, Lambert reminds us of the importance of physical activity in establishing control in a fast-paced culture that is focused more on the prospect of immediate gratification than savoring the fruits of our labor.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kelly Lambert is chair of psychology at Randolph-Macon College. Her writing has appeared in Nature, Scientific American, Behavioral Neuroscience, and more. Her research has been featured on ABC World News Tonight and in Scientific American Mind. She is president-elect of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. She lives in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465018149
ISBN 13 
9780465018147
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
303
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