Sociocultural Explanations for Gender Differences in Major Depressive Disorder

The prevalence rates of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) can be viewed through three lenses: Biological explanations, cognitive explanations, and sociocultural explanations. This post will focus on sociocultural explanations, and biological and cognitive ones have been discussed in past blogs. It is believed that women have higher prevalence rates due to…

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Is gender inequality inevitable in the future?

Having recently attended the ‘Web Summit’ in Lisbon, the world’s largest annual tech event, I have had many questions regarding the intersection between gender and technology. I firmly believe that technology will act as an enhancer; Whether for existing inequality, or the enhancement of equality. I wonder how artificial intelligence…

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Biological Explanations for Gender Differences in Major Depressive Disorder

At school, we are currently learning about Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). When approaching topics of this kind (mental health related and associated with abnormal behaviours), we approach the topic looking at biological explanations, cognitive explanations, and sociocultural explanations. I find it fascinating to see the extent of explanations, under each…

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