Depression as expressed in pre-Columbian Mexican art.
While undertaking a larger study dealing with representations of disease in pre-Columbian ceramic figures, the authors found four figures in which depression was clearly depicted. Their findings prove that psychiatric disorders did not go unnoticed by the people who inhabited the American continent before the arrival of the Spanish.
D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*