We know what depression looks like on the outside, in terms of a patient’s behavior, but our medical understanding of the actual progression of the disease and its treatments continues to evolve. “There are clear differences between a healthy brain and a depressed brain,” says Rachel Katz, MD, a Yale Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. “The exciting thing is, when you treat that depression effectively, the brain goes back to looking like a healthy brain.” In this video, Dr. Katz joins John Krystal, MD, chair of Yale’s Department of Psychiatry, in explaining how depression manifests in the brain.
John Krystal, MD, is a leading expert in the areas of alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and depression. His work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and computational neuroscience to study ...
