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Psychiatry

the idea that early mood episodes need major stressors but later episodes are triggered by smaller stressors or arise on their own as the illness becomes sensitized.

In psychiatry, kindling hypothesis refers to the idea that early mood episodes need major stressors but later episodes are triggered by smaller stressors or arise on their own as the illness becomes sensitized. This meaning comes from Post (1992) in American Journal of Psychiatry.[1]

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References

Post, R. M. (1992). Transduction of psychosocial stress into the neurobiology of recurrent affective disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(8), 999-1010. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.8.999

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