{"id":153900,"date":"2022-12-30T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-can-see-depression-in-a-brain-scan"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:28:51","slug":"researchers-can-see-depression-in-a-brain-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/researchers-can-see-depression-in-a-brain-scan","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Can See Depression In A Brain Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-can-see-depression-in-a-brain-scan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Depression is a difficult illness. Not only does it make you feel like crap, but like so many primarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/mental-illness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mental illnesses<\/a>, it also comes with a bucketful of misinformation and misconceptions surrounding it. Even medical specialists, whom you\u2019d expect to be the authorities on the matter, are stumped by some aspects of the disease \u2013 the truth is, while humanity may be more informed than ever on matters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/neuroscience\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the brain<\/a>, we still really don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on inside of it when it glitches like this.<\/p>\n<p>But that may soon change. Researchers based at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, claim to have developed what they call a \u201cmood decoder\u201d \u2013 a way of reading people\u2019s emotional state just from looking at brain activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first demonstration of successful and consistent mood decoding of humans in these brain regions,\u201d Baylor College neurosurgeon and project lead Sameer Sheth told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/12\/14\/1064906\/mood-decoder-measure-depression\/?utm_content=232281882\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>. And the best part? The team have also found a way to stimulate a positive mood in patients\u2019 brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression is a difficult illness. Not only does it make you feel like crap, but like so many primarily mental illnesses, it also comes with a bucketful of misinformation and misconceptions surrounding it. Even medical specialists, whom you\u2019d expect to be the authorities on the matter, are stumped by some aspects of the disease \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}