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Stanford (California) [US], September 8 (ANI): One of the most popular therapies for depression is cognitive behavioural therapy, which can help people learn coping mechanisms for common problems, reinforce positive actions, and challenge negative thinking..
A third of patients in a study with people who had both depression and obesitya combination that is challenging to treatsaw a reduction in depression thanks to cognitive behavioral therapy that emphasized problem solving..
Previous work from Williams lab, which identified six biotypes of depression based on patterns of brain activity, estimated that a quarter of people with depression have dysfunction with their cognitive control circuits either too much or too little activity...
The participants in the new study were adults diagnosed with both major depression and obesity, a confluence of symptoms that often indicates problems with the cognitive control circuit..
We wanted to see whether this problem-solving therapy in particular could modulate the cognitive control circuit, said Xue Zhang, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry who is the lead author of the study..
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