Discovery - Depression
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Geoff Watts meets researchers trying to find a new way to fight depression by studying those who never get it.
Geoff Watts meets researchers trying to find a new way to fight depression by studying those who never get it.
In the second of two programmes Geoff meets scientists at the University of Manchester, studying the brains of people who have undergone traumatic life events without becoming seriously depressed and comparing them to the brains of those people who do.
The hope is that new psychological therapies or even preventative medications might be developed to treat the one in five people who will at some point in their lives, become clinically depressed.
(Image: MRI scan of the head and brain. Credit: Corbis Royalty Free)
- Broadcast on BBC World Service, 3:32AM Mon, 6 Feb 2012
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC World Service, 7:32PM Mon, 30 Jan 2012
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- Duration 18 minutes
