A meta-analysis of studies examining links between cognitive ability and depression symptoms found no association between cognitive ability in childhood and depression in adulthood. The association was absent even after looking at different ages of assessment and in both genders. The research was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Cognitive abilities are the mental skills that one needs to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. These abilities encompass a range of mental processes related to the manipulation of information, such as perception, memory, logic and…