Improving anxiety treatment through help of brain imaging

harminka — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:10:24 -0500

Wouldn’t it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication" This question is important because research studies provide information about how groups of patients tend to respond to treatments, but inevitably, differences among groups of patients with the same diagnosis mean that findings about groups of patients may not apply to individuals from those groups.

Looking at cannabinoids, genes, medicines , brain scans to find better anxiety treatments

harminka — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:40:45 -0500

Right now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti-anxiety prescription they write.

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Improving anxiety treatment through help of brain imaging

Looking at cannabinoids, genes, medicines , brain scans to find better anxiety treatments