UCLA Q&A: The modern mismatch

January 7, 2016
Rebecca Cabage/ UCLA
Rebecca Cabage/ UCLA

Dr. Peter Whybrow, best-selling author and director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, believes that a stressful mismatch between the brain’s evolved biology and today’s demanding culture has helped shape behavior and habits that can prove trying. Dr. Whybrow notes the correlation between a more stressful and competitive society and more anxiety and depression, especially for students on campus.

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