Brain Scans of Chronically Depressed Patients Before and During Treatment (IMAGE)

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Brain Scans of Chronically Depressed Patients Before and During Treatment

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These are brain scans of chronically depressed patients before and during treatment. Left: Before treatment, depressed patients had a thicker cortex in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of the brain (shown in red). Right: Over 10 weeks of medication, these regions (shown in blue) no longer differed from the thickness of healthy controls.

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Ravi Bansal, PhD

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