It's obviously the beginning of a research project. Take a drug - see what it does to 'normal' people with the testing platform you are using (in this case functional MRI), then try it on different clinical diagnoses. Remember, most medical diagnoses and especially psychiatric ones are not binary events - they lie on a continuum. We really don't know how to diagnose most patients with complex psychiatric problems. We typically give them several overlapping diagnoses that really don't explain the patient's problems and medicate them accordingly. I've always thought there should be a 'just plain nuts' category. It would be more objective and honest.

Treatment of psychiatric issues with medications is still in it's infancy and it's still akin to using hand grenades instead of scalpels. Studies like this one are trying to pin point areas of regulation and dysregulation with the eventual idea of finding more specific treatments.

Of course, that means more specific ways of controlling someone's mind. Which has its upsides. And it downsides.

Although people are generally told that SSRIs take several weeks to work, many patients report that some effects are noticeable in the first few days. These are usually improvement in anxiety symptoms (depression and anxiety commonly coexist).

So this doesn't surprise me all that much. What will be interesting is to follow 'normal' and depressed people over time with and without treatment. However, given how annoying MRIs can be (confining and noisy and slow) I wonder if there will some sort of bias created with some people opting out of frequent testing.

But Global Warming is Obama's fault!

Oops. Missed one.

That's OK, we'll check on you next year as you re enroll. We've had some problems with our computer systems keeping up but we're working on it....

The truly prudent iOS (or for that matter OS X) user waits until the .2 release to upgrade. That gives all of the beta testers, err, early users, time to debug the stuff that Apple, despite having a closed hardware platform, just never seems to manage very well. By the second point release, most of the mainstream bugs have been fixed as best they ever will.

Sigh. Another humorless AC.

Full of ennui and hate. Full of himself. Likely full of Cheetos. Where is that lust for life? That passion? That urge to break out of the narrow, tunnel-visioned view of life all to common these days.

Must be Obama's fault.

"Horses can make other horses. That's a trick that tractor's haven't figured out yet."
        -- Heinlein

As opposed to use socks and duct tape? Philistine. I weep for the world that was.

That is NOT what "Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you glad to just see me?" means.

Congratulations. You've just confused the mods. +2 Troll. You ought to win something.

Right here. (It's engineering, you can only get two out of three.)

What did you load it on? An iPhone 1? A 4? An Osborne Executive?

Yep. The BMW "back in the shop again" experience AND the BMW 'new technology never quite works like it's supposed to" experience.

What's not to like?

Some of us, praise his Noodliness, do things other than typing in letters or filling in spreadsheets.

You must live in New Jersey or someplace like that.

That's different. We were all democrats back then.