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In an occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors briefly comment on review articles. These annotations were written by Barbara Geller, MD, and Jonathan Silver, MD.
Depression, stress, and resilience. In October, the two major scientific journals Science and Nature provided excellent up-to-date special sections on the adverse consequences of chronic stress and on interventions to improve these consequences. These sections provide a succinct review of many issues that the treating psychiatrist should be familiar with.
The section in Nature, which includes several news features and opinion pieces, examines the links between adversity and mental illness.1 Are there factors in modern urban life that predispose some individuals to psychosi…