Brain's default mode network may hold key to better psychiatric diagnoses
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 02:07
in Psychology & Sociology
Malfunctioning brain activity can be differentiated in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and PTSD, studies show.A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, the default mode network, that curious pattern of brain activity that ramps up when we daydream, works differently than it does in healthy control subjects.