Combining new brain scan techniques with patient information about any early life trauma can predict with unprecedentedly high (80%) accuracy whether a depressed patient is likely to recover with anti-depressant medications (ADM), or not, a team of Australian and United States mental health researchers has found. The ability to predict ADM response is important because,…
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Limbic Activity Modulation Improves Implicit Emotion Regulation
A new study has tested a novel imaging method that provides reliable neurofeedback on the level of amygdala activity using electroencephalography (EEG), and allowed people to alter their own emotional responses through self-regulation of its activity. Training the brain to treat itself is a promising therapy for traumatic stress. The training uses an auditory or…