If you want to cure an illness, you try to understand its underlying cause or causes, as a precondition for modifying, reducing, or eliminating them. That, in highly simplified terms, is one of the…
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In a range of psychiatric conditions, notably including depression, eating disorders, and social anxiety disorder, many who suffer have persistent negative beliefs about themselves—for example, that…
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Researchers have reported that the brain circuitry underlying depression is the same or similar in a wide variety of patients and circumstances, and that it is similar to circuitry affected when…
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Researchers have identified a neural circuit in the amygdala, the brain’s seat of emotion processing, that gives rise to anxiety.
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Stigma persists. Yet we are fortunate to live in an era in which major depression and other serious mental illnesses are considered just that — biologically-based malfunctions of the brain and…
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