
“Depression” is a broad category. People diagnosed with depression often have very different symptoms: some sleep too much and others can’t sleep enough, some lose weight and others gain, and so on. In an exciting new study using fMRI (brain imaging), researchers looked at connectivity in the brain to find biological markers that might distinguish different types of depression. They came up with four subtypes—a finding that if replicated, may pave the road for better diagnosis and more targeted treatment.
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