However, some patients do not respond well to drug therapy, failing two courses of different drug treatments, one course taking adequate doses for 4 to 8 weeks, and maintaining adequate medication adherence during a major depressive episode. It consists of continuing.
Despite being compliant with antidepressant medications, these patients may experience symptomatic relief but no remission. Clinically, this is known as treatment-resistant depression.
There are no local studies on the prevalence of such depression.
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“Everyone has different brain network patterns, so different people need different targets (of treatment),” said Associate Professor Thomas Yeo, from the NUS Sleep Cognition Centre.
Associate Professor Yeo and researchers developed an algorithm to identify unique locations in the brain. He added that with advances in his technology, scans will now take just 20 minutes and provide better brain images compared to 20 years ago.
“Based on algorithms developed by my group, it is possible to extract individual brain networks with a limited amount of data. This means that in just 10 to 20 minutes of MRI scans, very high-quality personalized “We can estimate the brain networks that have been created,” he said.
