广播电视英语短句 第 90 课：更容易抑郁-4

The researchers used information from fourteen studies involving more than fourteen thousand patients. 研究员们使用了来自 14 个研究的超过 14000 名病人的信息资料。

The scientists examined the data using the same measures as the two thousand three study. 这些科学家们运用了与 2003 年的研究一样的方法来分析这些数据。

They found that the risk of depression was not higher among those with the shorter gene. 他们没有发现那些拥有短基因的人们患上抑郁的风险比较高。

But they also found that stressful events themselves did appear to increase the risk for depression. 但是他们发现压力事件本身似乎才是抑郁的风险因素。

Neuroscientist Avshalom Caspi, then at Kings College London, led the two thousand three study. 当时在伦敦国王学院工作的神经学家 Avshalom Casp 领导了 2003 年的那个研究。