Scientific insights into the brain deepen our understanding of
depression and offer new ways to improve treatment and mental
functioning.
This section monitors developments in the study of mind and brain, from
research advances on brain cell regeneration to imaging technologies
that show the impact of psychotherapy for depression on different parts
of the brain. New disciplines (neuropsychoanalysis, interpersonal
neurobiology) are reshaping our understanding of early attachment,
dreams and the creative unconscious, and the power of the therapeutic
bond; mind and meditation sciences offer new approaches to stabilizing
mood and emotions through the focusing of attention; and studies on
subcortical and cellular levels of the brain, including electromagnetic
fields, are producing new somatic brain treatments for depression
(vagal nerve stimulation), and fostering investigations into the
healing potential of the human bioenergy field, an area still
controversial in mainstream science.
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