Brain Trip in Depression: MRI Journey

Depression is a huge problem for the world mental health and economics. The origin of depression is a serious issue for us to understand the basic characteristics of this kind of mental illness. Among the various theories for the origin of depression, the most crucial part of pathophysiology comes from the etiology of brain and the significant role of brain for the related symptoms in depression, such as the depressed mood, suicidal thoughts, low interest, low energy, impairments in the ability as how to plan a thing and solve a problem, inability to go to work or school, and loss of motivation to make social connection with others. In this book, the complex brain system will be explained in a more easy way and language style to let you know what's going wrong of the brain in depression. You also can take the crucial message from the book to understand why the brain dysfunction will be so important in depression. The author will take you into a trip to understand the alterations in brain via the journey connected by the "flight" of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The destinations of different brain regions and connections between these brain regions will be displayed by this MRI flight. Let's join the flight and take a trip to understand what's going wrong in the brain of depression.

About the Author:
Dr. Chien-Han Lai (MD, PhD) is a clinical psychiatrist and scientific researcher in Taiwan. He has rich experiences in clinical symptoms of depression and the study of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) application in solving the brain mystery in depression. Dr. Lai already published dozens of scientific articles about depression. He also ever earned the early career award from the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry. Dr. Lai also serves the roles of reviewer and editor in many international scientific journals.