Pathways to Depression
Channel: Engaged Brain Podcast
Date: 08/04/2016

Historically, treatments for depression and other psychiatric illnesses seemed barbaric. It wasn't until the advent of less severe electroconvulsive therapies and antidepressant medications that we moved away from punishing people with depression. MAOIs and SSRIs have been a saving grace to many people, but not everyone has found solace in antidepressant medications. For those who suffer from pharmacoresistant depression that resists therapy, medication and even ECT, there appeared to be nowhere left to turn. However, recent advances in neuroscience is shedding light on the multiple neural pathways thought to underlie depression. Using this information along with studies of structural and functional differences in depression, scientists have begun targeted treatments of dysfunctional pathways in order to treat depression. Today I sit down with Ashley Macina to discuss the neural underpinnings of depression.

Solving a Pathway for Depression
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