Why depression after traumatic brain injury is distinct — and less likely to respond to standard treatment
Traumatic brain injury multiplies the risk of major depression eightfold. While the emotional trauma of whatever caused such deep damage may be understandable, from a blast in a war zone to a blow on the playing field, there’s a physiological component, too, that neuroscientists have long suspected but have been unable to identify.
“As clinicians, a lot of us had a gut feeling that [TBI-associated depression] is a different disease,” said Shan Siddiqi, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor of psychiatry and a clinical neuropsychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “Why did nobody detect it before? I think the reason is because unlike other psychiatric disorders, TBI caused a sort of structural reorganization of the brain.”
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/06/depression-after-traumatic-brain-injury/
Did you mean to link to an article or study or something?
Searching for the quotes lead to this:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/06/depression-after-traumatic-brain-injury/
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Yes! Oops. Fixed.
Ah... planning on quoting a section in the comments but forgot to copy the link so it made a text topic? Done that before myself. :P
p.s. Fixed the title for you, since you forgot the "Why" part. Unless you left that out for a particular reason?
I think the title is effective both with and without the why. I chose without but I don't feel strongly about it at all.
Ah, I assumed since there was no capitalization on "depression" that it was just a mistake omitting the "Why". I can change it back if you would prefer.
Exactly Lol.
It's a happy accident but I think I actually prefer it the current way, since I can click expand topic texts and read your quotes and thoughts right on the front page, instead of having to click read comment first.