Depression and a thinner cerebral cortex?

The question here is whether the depression causes the thining or the thinning causes the depression.

Exercise: Getting past the drive to be thin

It’s hard to work all day, come home wondering what you’ll throw together for dinner, pay bill, write a blog, clean up dog puke … and remember to exercise daily.

Like a lot of others, particularly women, I use the old stick and carrot approach of keeping my figure slim and trim, but I know - deep down - that the other benefits of exercise can’t be measured on a scale or with a tape measure.

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