New Research-Women more depressed because they remember better and "dwell" on things

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Women wired to remember emotions -

Brain study suggests women recall feelings better than men

Matrimonial lore says husbands never remember marital spats and wives never forget. A new study suggests a reason: Women’s brains are wired both to feel and to recall emotions more keenly than the brains of men.

Canli said women and men had distinctively different emotional responses to the same photos. For instance, the men would see a gun and call it neutral, but for women it would be “highly, highly negative” and evoke strong emotions. Neutral pictures showed such things as a fireplug, a book case or an ordinary landscape.
The pictures most often rated emotionally intense showed dead bodies, gravestones and crying people. A picture of a dirty toilet prompted a strong emotional response, especially from the women subjects, Canli said.

Canli said the study may help move science closer to finding a biological basis to explain why clinical depression is much more common in women than in men. Canli said a risk factor for depression is rumination, or dwelling on a memory and reviewing it time after time. The study illuminates a possible biological basis for rumination, he said.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

Hm. Makes sense to me based on MY experience.

In fact, I felt like saying “No duh” when I read the thread title. Heh heh.

[bouv]

If I may quote one of the greatest minds of our century, Homer Simpson:

“Oh sure, everything looks bad if you remember it!”

[TroubleAgain]

Yeah, my first reaction to this article was “No Sh!t, Sherlock!”