Thank you, Mulan. That definitely is an interesting article.
The study on which the
Psychology Today article is based is available free online at PubMed.gov - PubMed Central (check the upper right of the abstract page for the link to the pdf).
Here's an excerpt from the
abstract:
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Biomarkers have transformed modern medicine but remain largely elusive in psychiatry, partly because there is a weak correspondence between diagnostic labels and their neurobiological substrates. Like other neuropsychiatric disorders, depression is not a unitary disease, but rather a heterogeneous syndrome that encompasses varied, co-occurring symptoms and divergent responses to treatment. By using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a large multisite sample (n = 1,188), we show here that patients with depression can be subdivided into four neurophysiological subtypes ('biotypes') defined by distinct patterns of dysfunctional connectivity in limbic and frontostriatal networks.
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Would I be willing to spend time in an MRI to find out which one of their depression subtypes/biotypes I am? Maybe...
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