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The University of Wisconsin is a center for research on depression.
A number of faculty in the Psychology and Psychiatry Departments, many of
whom have joint appointments in the two departments, investigate the
developmental origins, underlying psychological and biological processes,
prevention, and treatment of this disorder. We study depression over the
lifespan and look at how culture, ethnicity, and gender affect its
manifestation. An important theme cutting across our work is that it is as
important to understand what protects people from depression as what makes
them vulnerable to depression. We conduct basic psychological and
biological research on the mechanisms involved in maintaining a
nondepressed or positive affective state. Our research involves a wide
variety of participants including children, adolescents, college students,
community members, and psychiatric patients as well as non-human primates
and rats. We conduct laboratory, clinical, intervention, prospective, and
naturalistic studies.
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