Early-stage psychotherapy produces elevated frontal white matter integrity in adult major depressive disorder.

BACKGROUND: Psychotherapy has demonstrated comparable efficacy to antidepressant medication in the treatment of major depressive disorder. Metabolic alterations in the MDD state and in response to treatment have been detected by functional imaging methods, but the underlying white matter microstruct...

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Main Authors: Tao Wang, Xiaolan Huang, Peiyu Huang, Dan Li, Fajin Lv, Yong Zhang, Linke Zhou, Deyu Yang, Peng Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3640008?pdf=render