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12 pages in length. The recent passage of a law to mandate better mental health insurance coverage and treatment begins a new journey in the decades-long struggle to provide appropriate care for those who are ashamed by the stigma of mental diseases like depression. The new law is unprecedented in its power to destigmatize society's impression of mental illness and finally treat it as any other type of physical disease. Clearly, depression is a major issue in today's population with millions of people suffering from its effects. Knowing firsthand how difficult and devastating depression can be, it is important for its causes, symptoms and types be understood by society as a whole. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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care for those who are ashamed by the stigma of mental diseases like depression. The new law is unprecedented in its power to destigmatize societys impression of mental illness
and finally treat it as any other type of physical disease. Clearly, depression is a major issue in todays population with millions of people suffering from its effects.
Knowing firsthand how difficult and devastating depression can be, it is important for its causes, symptoms and types be understood by society as a whole. II. WHAT IS
DEPRESSION? A. Depression is defined as a clinical mood disorder whereby change in mental perspective impair normal aspects of life - work, recreation, family - due to a loss of
interest. B. Diagnosis is made based upon a screening of customary symptoms associated with the disease. III. CAUSES A. Chemical imbalance
in the brain has long been thought to be the cause for depression. But researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abnormalities in the brain as well.
The prefrontal cortex has been found to be smaller in the brains of the depressed person. Depressed patients have been found to have a drastically smaller volume of a
section of the left PFC that sits behind the bridge of the nose. In some cases this section is up to forty percent smaller in depressed persons. When
researchers looked into what might cause this shrinkage, it was found that it could be the result of having loss of glia (Tandon, 2007), which are small cells that do
important or even critical housekeeping of the brain. The glia might also play a part in the development of serotonin in the system. Additionally, it may be that
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