Tag: brain scan

Psychiatry's medicalization of social and psychological suffering is not justified by the currently known biology.

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry connects antipsychotics with damage to the brain in multiple areas.

In a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers investigated whether they could use EEG (electroencephalograph) technology to predict whether people would feel better...

A new attempt to study the neurological effects of long-term exposure to antipsychotics uses healthy volunteers on minimal doses for 15 days.

A new study debunks the theory that depression is associated with brain asymmetry.

A new study suggests that taking antidepressants impairs empathy, while the experience of depression itself does not.

A new study casts doubt on whether such biotypes for depression exist.

Study finds that reduced cortical thickness and brain surface area associated with 'schizophrenia' may result from antipsychotic drug use.

Two experts—a leading neuroscientist studying OCD, and a psychiatrist specializing in OCD treatment—question whether expensive brain imaging research has added anything to the treatment of OCD.

From STAT: In 1998, a graduate student at the Montreal Neurological Institute named Colin Holmes underwent 27 brain scans and combined them into one high-quality...

A new study in the journal PNAS explores whether brain scans are ineffective at identifying criminal intent in carefully designed situations.

More than forty thousand papers have been published using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to explore the brain. A new analysis of the common...

People diagnosed with severe depression show the same changes in brain scans when they respond to a placebo as they do when they take an actual antidepressant, according to a new study. Researchers also found that those whose symptoms were decreased by a placebo were more likely to report relief from antidepressant drugs.