Doctors Can Predict If Antidepressants Will Work For You [Time.com]

Antidepressants can be very effective in treating depression, but the drugs are often a hit or miss; of the 10% of Americans diagnosed with depression, the medications generally work in about half of cases. Even then, finding the right antidepressant can often take months of cycling through different drugs until one starts to alleviate the mood disorder.

But in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, researchers led by Leanne Williams, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, found that a combination of brain scans and assessment of early life stress can predict which people are more likely to respond to an antidepressant right from the start.