Scholarly Saturday: Adolescent Depression – Stress and Reward Dysfunction

This was an interesting article shared by a follower and mental health advocate on twitter. It examines various points of depression and its relationship to feelings of reward (or lack there of). Describes in great detail the impact that stress has at various points of depression.  The article ends with suggesting that treatment using biofeedback can assist with these interactions.

What I gleamed it that we not just biology but we are not just people who simply respond to stress. It is an interesting way to reframe and look at depression through a different lens…

reward dysfunction