The Most Effective Depression Treatment Ever is an FDA Breakthrough
Neuroscience Has (Finally) Paid Off!
The Frontier Psychiatrists newsletter and his written by one psychiatrist. The Royal We. That kind of plural. Every once in a while I write an article to explain something to myself, and also explain it to the rest of the world in the process. This is one of those articles. This is the story of the most effective depression treatment, ever.
The most important thing for the general public to understand about brain scans is they are very convincing. If you put a picture of a brain next to text, it makes it more believable.1
We do know a movie of the blood flow in the brain shot with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can show differences in brain activity.
In the case of depression treatment, we now know enough to use one of these brain activity movies to improve outcomes dramatically.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanners are Heavy and Expensive
I'm going to get through what an MRI is without getting far into the weeds— frankly, it's complicated. And I don't understand it well enou…