Stress, Anxiety and Depression
These are powerful forces for promoting positive adaptive behavioural changes which have important survival benefits and cannot be ignored. However, when change is not an option they become self-destructive, reducing quality of life and social cohesion; promoting disease and shortening life expectancy.
Professor Keith Kendrick is Systems and Behavioural Neuroscientist and was Gresham Professor of Physic between 2002 and 2006.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
| Stress, Anxiety and Depression |
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