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With a simple blood test it is possible to identify people dealing with bipolar disorder and whether they will respond to lithium treatment

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One of the most common treatments for bipolar disorder today is the drug lithium - a drug to which only about a third of patients respond. The research aims to understand what causes this
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at the top of their concerns

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Significant progress towards personalized medicine in the field of psychiatry, with the help of a helmet that induces electromagnetic stimulation of the brain.
Brain regions showing statistically significant changes between schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects. So, for example, arrow 1 points to an area in the motor cortex, and arrow 5 points to the precuneus, which is involved in processing visual information. Source: IBM.

Computational psychiatry: A machine learning algorithm will help predict schizophrenia

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Beyond symptoms / Ferris Jaber

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Treatment of an electric market during the First World War. From Wikipedia

"Today there is no substitute for the treatment of depression using an electric shock"

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