Breaking News: researchers in Taiwan have demonstrated to what
appears to be a first approximation the depression may actually be
a brain disease, specifically the gray matter of the anterior cingulate
which appears to be reduced in people with depression. Don't
take my word for it, consider this news story from what appears
to be a German news agency on the Aetna Intellihealth website
(my my, so many different counties in the same device!); see:
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC267/24479/24524/1400000.html?d=dmtICNNews
I wonder if this means that Aetna health insurance will now treat
depression as a physical ("real") illness instead of as a mental
("unreal") illness, that is, provide coverage for services and
treatment comparable to other physical/real illnesses?
I won't hold my breath waiting to get an answer to that question.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. I guess all those biological psychiatrists who thought that
they established depression as a brain/neurochemical disorder
with decades of research must be pretty bummed about having
their research ignored in this news story.
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