Chapter 1: What is the significance of Mental Health Awareness Month?
This is Radiolab. I'm Lulu Miller. It's May, which means we are right in the middle of Mental Health Awareness Month. And because of that, I found myself thinking about an episode we did many years ago about what was at the time a brand new way of peeking inside the brain to try to see various mental health conditions like depression and many other things. It's a fascinating piece.
And while it was recorded 17 years ago, and you'll find some of the language reflects that time, the question at the heart of the story is really timeless, really provocative, really fascinating. So we are going to air it today. And at the end, I will be back with a short update on where some of the technology has come in the subsequent years. So here we go.
Buckle up with the episode called How to Cure What Ails You.
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Hello, I'm Jad Abumrad. And I'm Robert Krulwich. This is Radiolab. This hour we're talking about diagnosis.
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Chapter 2: How has brain imaging changed the diagnosis of depression?
The amygdala sees the emotion on the faces at that moment.
And the machine... It's like tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And there were hundreds of pictures.
Tenth of a second to tenth of a second to tenth of a second.
That's right.
Did you see a difference between the people who were depressed and the people who were normal?
Yes.
Was it a significant difference or a just barely difference?
As a group, it was a significant difference.
And now she takes the big step.
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