Being unable to perform everyday activities that boost someone's mood may increase depression risk, according to recent "mood homeostasis" research from the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry. "We propose that a fundamental—yet unexplored—underlying mechanism of depression may lie in some people's inability to stabilize mood through their choice of everyday activities," the authors explain.
Their research question: "Is impaired mood homeostasis (i.e., failure to stabilize mood via mood-modifying activities) associated with low mood and a history of depression?" This study (Taquet et al., 2020) investigated how people around the globe naturally regulate their moods by choosing various everyday activities that facilitate mood
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