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New research could take hopelessness out of depression

Posted on December 6, 2016
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“‘It’s not that people with depression aren’t capable of feeling like someone who’s not,’ says Imbault, a PhD candidate who presented the findings at a recent meeting of the Psychonomic Society. ‘People don’t start out being depressed – it’s that they’ve lost the ability to feel emotion altogether. They’re apathetic.’ […]”

Read more at Medical Xpress.

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