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Brain imaging helps to understand depression

Published in Health and Medicine Week, October 27th, 2003

A pioneering research study using brain imaging has yielded new clues to help sufferers from severe depression who do not respond to conventional treatment.

Around 5 million people in the U.K. experience depression at any one time. While a number of successful treatments, both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic, are available and many people make a full recovery, about 30 - 40% of people are resistant to conventional therapies.

Now an international team of researchers have discovered that brain activity differs significantly between healthy individuals and those suffering from treatment-resistant clinical depression.

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