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Speaking of PSYCHOLOGY Podcast
by the American Psychological Association (APA)
January 2025
Precision mental health and personalized treatment, with
Leanne Williams, PhD and Zachary Cohen, PhD​
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Depression and anxiety look very different from one person to the next, and finding the right treatment can be a trial-and-error process. But researchers are working to change that. Leanne Williams, PhD, and Zachary Cohen, PhD, discuss the emerging field of precision or personalized mental health care; how advances in neuroimaging and big data are helping researchers identify subtypes of depression and anxiety and predict treatment response; and the challenges of bringing these methods from the research lab into treatment clinics.
Stanford Engineering's
The Future of Everything Podcast
December 20, 2024
The Future of Depression Care
By Stanford Engineering Staff
This article is part of the series: The Future of Everything Podcast
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An authority on clinical depression explains how rapidly evolving imaging tools have created an explosion of knowledge about this ancient illness – and why psychiatry’s hopes are on the rise.​
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Leanne Williams is an expert in depression.
​The first thing that she wants the world to know is that depression is not some sort of character flaw, but a real illness with symptoms that can impair one’s ability to function day to day. The past decade has seen remarkable advances, she says, as functional MRI has opened new avenues of understanding depression’s mechanisms and its treatments. These are hopeful times for the science of depression, Williams tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast.​
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