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Stress, Sleep Loss, and Substance Abuse Create Potent Recipe for College Depression
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA. 2004;291:2177-2179.
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Ann Arbor, Mich—Syrian hamsters have it easy. The most stress they may ever endure is being moved from cage to cage so that researchers can study what happens in their brains as they tangle for territorial rights.
College students might well envy such a cushy life. They, too, face territorial issues as they jockey for the desk by the window in a cramped dorm room or the last seat in the anonymous back row of a seminar class. But for some students, the stress of adjusting to college life—with too many all-nighters, keg-drenched weekends, and easy access to illegal drugs—is off the charts.
Experts are just beginning to recognize the close connections that stress, substance abuse, and lack of sleep have with increasing depression among college students, thanks in part to recent brain imaging studies in humans and animals that show how stressed, depressed, and addicted brains . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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