There is increasing academic and clinical interest in how “lifestyle factors” traditionally
associated with physical health may also relate to mental health and psychological well …

Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are
among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In this review, we propose a …

Background Inflammatory markers are raised in cross-sectional studies of depressed
patients and may represent an important mediating factor for behaviour, neural plasticity and …

Physical fitness, achieved through regular exercise and/or spontaneous physical activity,
confers resilience by inducing positive psychological and physiological benefits, blunting …

The obesity epidemic and associated chronic diseases are often attributed to modern
lifestyles. The term “lifestyle” however, ignores broader social, economic, and environmental …

Objective Depression and anxiety have been suggested to be associated with systemic
inflammation upregulation. However, results are not always consistent, which may be due to …

Growing evidence suggests that immune dysregulation may be involved in depressive
disorders, but the exact nature of this association is still unknown and may be restricted to …

Epidemiological evidence for the inflammatory hypothesis of depression is largely cross-
sectional; people with depression have elevated levels of circulating pro-inflammatory …

Obesity and related metabolic conditions are of epidemic proportions in most of the world,
affecting both adults and children. The accumulation of lipids in the body in the form of white …

BackgroundPhysical inactivity has been identified as a risk factor for depression and, less
often, as a long-term consequence of depression. Underexplored is whether similar bi …