There are six biotypes of depression.

These findings are from a study in @NatureMedicine which derived personalized and interpretable scores of brain circuit dysfunction grounded in a theoretical taxonomy to subdivide participants into distinct biotypes.
The dominant ‘one-size-fits-all’ diagnostic approach in psychiatry leads to cycling through treatment options by trial and error, which is lengthy, expensive and frustrating, with 30–40% of patients not achieving remission after trying one treatment.
Using an image-processing system, 41 measures of activation and connectivity of 6 brain circuits of interest for each participant were obtained, and ‘regional circuit scores’ were derived.

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