Unexplained sadness can arise from subconscious physiological and psychological triggers.
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SUPPORTED
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Unexplained sadness and mood shifts are often driven by underlying neurobiological and psychological processes, such as baseline neural activity fluctuations and stress responses.
Evidence for · 3
Neuro-computational account of how mood fluctuations arise and affect decision making
2018 · cited by 81
Paper 2 demonstrates how baseline neural fluctuations integrate emotional experiences to produce mood changes.
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Paper 10 highlights emotional and psychosocial stress as biologically active determinants that trigger physical and psychological stress responses.