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Rachel Jacobs
Rachel Jacobs PhD
Dr. Jacobs worked on the National Institute of Mental Health’s largest investigation of treatments for adolescent depression and made specific contributions to understanding cognitive mediators of depression change.
Currently, Dr. Jacobs is focused on understanding how to prevent ...
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Young Adults Who Had Depression Have 'Hyper-Connected' Brain Networks
Young adults who struggled with depression in adolescence appear to have "hyper-connected" networks in their brain, researchers are reporting.The findings might improve understanding of depression and could lead to new ways to predict, prevent and treat the illness, according to the University of Illinois Chicago researchers. Read More
Brain networks 'hyper-connected' in young adults who had depression
Depression may be better predicted and understood now that University of Illinois Chicago researchers have discovered that young adults who previously experienced the mental illness have hyper-connected emotional and cognitive networks in the brain. Read More
Brain Images Of Depressed Adults Reveal Too Many Network Connections Related To Rumination
While "the unexamined life is not worth living,” too much self-reflection may be a big-time negative, or so say psychologists who believe rumination — when you think about a problem over and over without coming to a solution — is a risk factor for depression and for reoccurrence of depression. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois Chicago plainly reveals the startling effects of rumination on the brain. Brain scans of previously depressed young adults showed hyperconnected emotional and cognitive networks, especially in the regions related to rumination, the researchers found. Read More