Understanding depression and anxiety
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Learn about the causes of depression and anxiety, with a focus on stress. Explore risk factors, biology, and psychology behind these mental health issues. Understand how stressful life events, genetics, and environment contribute to emotional disorders. Discover the physiological stress response and biological abnormalities associated with depression and anxiety. Enroll in this free course to gain valuable insights and knowledge.
This free course, Understanding depression and anxiety, explores the causes of these mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk and causal factors for some depression and anxiety disorders, and learn about the biology and psychology behind them.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Describe how stressful life events may be linked to emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety
Describe the main features of the physiological stress response
Evaluate the role of genetic and environmental factors in emotional disorders
Describe the different kinds of biological abnormalities that have been linked to emotional disorders.
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