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Researchers have used brain scanning technology to confirm a relationship between levels of a common type of receptor and the risk for suicidal thinking in people with post-traumatic stress disorder…
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It may soon be possible to make individualized treatment plans for different subsets of patients with treatment-resistant major depression, using a type of non-invasive brain stimulation therapy…
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![Developing Neuroscience Tools to Improve Treatments](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/braingearsandcogs-1440_2.jpg?itok=WXbtpEC7)
Psychiatry, says Dr. Daniel Pine, is at a crossroads. The two crossing paths can be labeled “clinically-focused diagnosis” and “patient-oriented biological understanding” of mental illness. Beginning…
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Psychiatry, says Dr. Daniel S. Pine, “might achieve a needed paradigm shift” by adopting a research approach used in other branches of medicine, an approach called “experimental medicine.” It…
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![Brain Activity Patterns Could Help Identify Best Treatment for Patients with Major Depression](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/brainwireframe-1440_9.jpg?itok=m5qqKcar)
New research published online March 24 in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that an MRI of the brain could help clinicians predict whether a patient with major depression is more…
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