Social network determinants of depression

The etiology of depression has long been thought to include social environmental factors. To quantitatively explore the novel possibility of person-to-person spread and network-level determination of depressive symptoms, analyses were performed on a densely interconnected social network of 12 067 pe...

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Published in:	Molecular psychiatry Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 273 - 281
Main Authors:	Rosenquist, J N, Fowler, J H, Christakis, N A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.03.2011 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	692/699/476/1414 706/689/523 Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Aged Aged, 80 and over Behavioral Sciences Biological and medical sciences Biological Psychology Depression Depression - etiology Depression - psychology Depression, Mental Development and progression Ego Environmental factors Epidemiology Etiology Families & family life Female Genetic aspects Health care policy Humans Hypotheses Influence Longitudinal Studies Male Mathematical models Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mental depression Middle Aged Molecular Sequence Data Mood disorders Neurosciences Observation original-article Pharmacotherapy Probability Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychiatry Psychological aspects Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Risk factors Social networks Social organization Social Support Sociology Statistical analysis Suicides & suicide attempts United States United States > US depression social norms mood social networks sociology Mood disorder Depression Social network
ISSN:	1359-4184, 1476-5578, 1476-5578
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