Adaptive depression, affective computing, and intelligent processing

Adaptive depression is part of the intelligent-not just human-condition. Intelligent systems need to detect patterns of failure in memory, retreat from dangerous environments, explain failures, rehearse new behaviors off-line, and return to new, quick, successful behavior, until their environment changes again. Computer models of adaptive depression are examples of affective computing, why and how to give computers not just reasoning but emotion as well, and have important implications for intelligently adaptable, autonomous robots and software agents