Studies have consistently shown that adolescent children of parents with depression are two to three times more likely to develop depression than those with no parental history of depression.
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, over 7000 children’s brain images were analyzed by researchers in the United States. According to the study, about one-third of the children were in the high-risk group because they had a parent with depression. The research found that in the high-risk children, the right putamen - a brain structure linked to reward, motivation, and the experience of pleasure was smaller than in children with no parental history of depression.
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