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Social Connection May Be Strongest Protection Against Depression
depression, and suggest that reducing sedentary activities such as TV watching and daytime napping could also help reduce the risk of depression.The team identified a set of modifiable factors from a field of more than 100 that could represent valuable targets for preventing depression in adults.The findings are published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.“Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, but until now researchers have focused on only a handful of risk and protective factors, often in just one or two domains,” says Karmel Choi, Ph.D., investigator in the Department of Psychiatry and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and lead author of the paper.
