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Brain Imaging Struggles for Psychiatric Respect
Researchers seek a high-tech way to customize drug, talk, and surgical treatments for various disorders
Email: Douglas Steinberg - dsteinberg@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2004, 18(23):17
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Psychiatrists can draw upon long clinical experience with adult patients to surmise why antidepressant medications foster suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children, as the US Food and Drug Administration warned this fall. Treatment often restores a person's ability to act purposefully, including self-destructively, before it improves his or her mood. In the weeks separating these two stages, a few desperately sad but resolute patients are attracted to suicide. Unfortunately, doctors have no systematic way to judge who is in danger.
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