"Brain fingerprinting" of adolescents might be able to predict mental health problems down the line - PsyPost


8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by Daniel Hermens, Jim Lagopoulos, and Zach Shan

By monitoring and tracking brain changes as they happen, we can tackle emerging mental health problems in adolescence and target early treatment. The challenge is accurately predicting the likelihood of a person developing a mental disorder, well before it ha…

Despite the best efforts of clinicians and researchers for decades, we still do not fully know why some people develop mental disorders and others do not. However, changes in the brain are very likel… [+4758 chars]

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