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Major depressive disorder Brain MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mitra Chitsazan, M.D.[2]

Overview

Overview

There are no MRI findings associated with major depressive disorder.

MRI

MRI

There are no MRI findings associated with major depressive disorder. However, some MRI studies have shown smaller caudate nuclei and smaller frontal lobes in patients with major depressive disorder than in control subjects. [1] [2]


References

References

  1. Zhang FF, Peng W, Sweeney JA, Jia ZY, Gong QY (2018). “Brain structure alterations in depression: Psychoradiological evidence”. CNS Neurosci Ther. 24 (11): 994–1003. doi:10.1111/cns.12835. PMC 6489983. PMID 29508560.
  2. Boland, Robert (2022). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 1975145569.

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