“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.”

—  Robert M. Sapolsky , book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder re…" by Robert M. Sapolsky?
Robert M. Sapolsky photo
Robert M. Sapolsky 25
American endocrinologist 1957

Related quotes

Nayef Al-Rodhan photo

“Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection only occasionally.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.65

Rollo May photo

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

Rollo May book Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 243

Alice A. Bailey photo

“I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare.”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

Source: Glamour: A World Problem (1950), Certain Preliminary Clarifications

“The inability of business and political leadership to rise to new heights [required by the] unprecedented situation, [familiar to us now as the Great Depression.. urged for] bold policies…bold anything is needed at this time.”

Wallace Brett Donham (1877–1954) American academic

As cited by Drew Gilpin Faust, " Harvard Business School Centennial http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2008/harvard-business-school-centennial," at harvard.edu, October 14, 2008.
"The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities", 1933

“The surrender and succeeding jubilation was rightly American but, as Admiral Fraser appreciated, Britain and the Commonwealth had now been at war for six long years less a day. If the forenoon had been American, then the evening would be British. The last sunset ceremony had been carried out on the evening of September 2,1939. Since then the White Ensign had flown in every ship by day and night. Admiral Fraser ordered the resumption of sunset routine as from September 2, 1945 and invited all the senior officers of British ships in Tokyo, and a token number of sailors from each, to witness the ceremony in his flagship. He was dissuaded from firing a sunset gun in case some trigger-happy American or Japanese thought the war had re-started.”

Louis Le Bailly (1915–2010) Royal Navy admiral

“An important consequence of the unique interaction between internal and external forces … is that knowledge of genetic differences contains no information at all about whether a characteristic can be changed by environmental and social arrangements. The most elementary error about genetics and development is to suppose that “genetic” is the opposite of “changeable” and that an answer to the question “how much can a trait be changed by social, historical, and individual circumstances” is given by an answer to the question “how important are genes.””

Richard C. Lewontin (1929) American evolutionary biologist

Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange (1995)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry photo

“"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

Ch III : The Tool
Terre des Hommes (1939)

Mahathir bin Mohamad photo

“I believe that the country should have a strong government but not too strong. A two-thirds majority like I enjoyed when I was prime minister is sufficient but a 90% majority is too strong.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925) Prime Minister of Malaysia

December 2005, on his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Parliamentary majority of 92%. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/11/nation/12838957&sec=nation

David Foster Wallace photo

“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Related topics