Tests can predict if antidepressants will work for you

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www.yahoo.com/beauty/doctors-predict-antidepressants-190614292.html

"in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, researchers led by Leanne Williams, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, found that a combination of brain scans and assessment of early life stress can predict which people are more likely to respond to an antidepressant right from the start...."

Read more at med.stanford.edu/williamslab/news.html and
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/researchers-predict-high-accuracy-if-antidepressants-will-help

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This study used an MRI scan, to identify Amygdala response to 'happy faces' and 'fearful faces'. On a screen in front of them.
But their is a more immediate test?
When we see a 'smiling face', which is processed through the Amygdala.
This initiates a 'Mirror Neuron Process' in the brain.
Which causes a smile in response. That is a reflexive response.

So rather sending a client off for an MRI?
The therapist could instead, observe clients facial responses.