“Potential biomarker that could predict”? – caveats about psychiatric brain imaging

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HealthNewsReview.org hosts a guest article from Susan Molchan, who takes issue with a recent New York Times blog post where Dr. Richard Friedman describes a “potential biomarker in the brain that would help psychiatrists direct depressed patients towards treatment to which they would more likely respond.” As she critically takes the claim apart, Molchan draws on connected criticisms from 1 Boring Old Man and Allen Frances, and revisits the “black stain” history of Charles Nemeroff.

“Potential biomarker that could predict”? – caveats about psychiatric brain imaging & blogging about it (HealthNewsReview.org, January 20, 2015)

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  1. “potential biomarker in the brain that would help psychiatrists direct depressed patients towards treatment to which they would more likely respond.”
    The facepalm reading this statement caused almost gave me a whole-face bruise. Even if there were “biomarkers in the brain” (LOL) for so-called “psychiatric illnesses” (ROFL) I wonder how that should guide the “treatment”. This is gibberish.

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