A study found 'extraordinary diversity' in brain changes in people with schizophrenia or major depression.
may be more effective when focusing on an individual's brain, rather than group averages.
"For example, knowing that the average height of the Australian population is about 1.7 m tells me very little about the height of my next-door neighbour," she said. , bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or autism spectrum disorder."We confirmed earlier findings that the specific brain regions showing large deviations in brain volume vary a lot across individuals, with no more than 7% of people with the same diagnosis showing a major deviation in the same brain area," Professor Alex Fornito, who led the research team, said in the statement.
The research may explain why two people with the same mental illness may have more symptoms in common than two people with two different illnesses.
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