Why Study Altitude and Depression?

 

In 2008, Dr. Renshaw and his research team moved to Salt Lake City from Boston, Massachusetts, where he was a professor at Harvard Medical School. During their transition to Utah, he and some of his fellow researchers noticed increased depression and suicide rates in Utah. Dr. Renshaw then investigated the Utah paradox: Utah has been rated as the happiest state in America, yet it is among the states with the highest rates of depression and suicide. Dr. Renshaw and his team have since conducted many studies in an effort to learn more about how altitude may affect peoples' moods. To learn more about Dr. Renshaw's research on depression, suicide, and altitude rates in the intermountain west:http://mic.com/articles/104096/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why