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Brain scans to catch child depression before it starts

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Researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute are using the latest advances in brain imaging to identify children at high risk of depression before the debilitating and sometimes deadly disorder sets in. Ben Gruber reports.

Added on the 03/02/2016 15:11:11 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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