THE VIDEO SHELF · clinical depression
Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on depression as a real biological disease. He covers its biological and psychological causes, how it differs from ordinary sadness, and ideas such as learned helplessness. He ties these together into one account.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN returns to it repeatedly as the best single introduction to understanding clinical depression.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Stanford
- Topic
- clinical depression
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 14
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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Professor Sapolsky at Stanford gave an interesting lecture about depression a few years ago... highly recommended: [VIDEO]
fjarlq on Hacker News · 2013-01
In We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an IllnessThis was posted in a HN comment not too long ago. It's a very good lecture that goes into both the biological and psychological aspects of depression and then manages to tie them together. [VIDEO] > We say that there is something wrong with their …
AlexandrB on Hacker News · 2013-01
In We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illnesswhile on the subject, highly recommend this video on depression from Stanford's Sapolsky to understanding the underlying biological aspect of it: [VIDEO]
maxlamb on Hacker News · 2017-10
In The Depression Thing
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