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Rethinking Depression

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain

Mar 16, 202600:53:07Science & Medicine

We tend to see depression as an illness to eliminate, evidence that something has gone wrong in the brain. But what if low mood serves a purpose? Psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg examines the evolutionary roots of depres...

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Rethinking Depression is an episode from Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain. We tend to see depression as an illness to eliminate, evidence that something has gone wrong in the brain. But what if low mood serves a purpose? Psychologist Jonathan R...

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Published Mar 16, 2026, 00:53:07 long, audio available.