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Boost resilience to tackle mental illness

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An economically efficient way of tackling the enormous social and economic costs of mental ill health (Nature 477, 132 and Nature 478, 15; 2011) would be to boost 'resilience' to mood disorders.

Mentally healthy individuals often show a positive affective bias because their processing of negative information is inhibited. This effect, possibly mediated by the neuromodulator serotonin, promotes resilience by dampening the stress associated with negative life experiences.

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