Child abuse and genetics have been mentioned before on this blog as contributors to mental illness - but never in the same story, until now.
A new study suggests that having certain gene variations helps people avoid depression as adults even if they were abused or otherwise experienced “extreme stress” as children.
Those without the variations have […]

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Readers and listeners often accuse journalists of only focusing on bad news.
It’s true that bad news proliferates — after all, one of the first things you learn in journalism class is that the more bizarre the story, the more newsworthy it is.
However, all the sadness can take its toll on an audience.
In a study by […]

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