Science19.10.2022 - 00:53

Successful treatment of depression changes brain structure in people

It turned out that the adult brain has a high degree of plasticity.

Фото: from open sources

Doctors of neuropsychopharmacology from the ECN company have established that the adult brain has a high degree of plasticity.

Thus, Professor Jonathan Reppl from the University of Frankfurt (Germany) said that after successful treatment of moderate and severe forms of depression in 6 months you can trace changes in the structure of the brain.

In the department of the brain in such patients, the structure of the behavior of neural connections changes.

It is noted that the number of such connections may increase depending on the success of treatment.

Before this study, it was thought that only children's brains had plasticity.

Now the scientific society notes that past notions about the variability of the adult brain are inaccurate.

Scientists will continue to conduct the study to gather further information.

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