Doctors are reaching past the symptoms of mental illness to fix the circuits that breed them

“The EEG, which has been around for more than 90 years, is a map of the brain’s electrical activity and reflects a patient’s emotional and cognitive states. The qEEG compares that information, in real time, to a digital database of hundreds of EEGs of healthy subjects. A patient’s brain map will pulse with red or blue if it is either overactive or underactive, compared with the norm.

“The brain is almost screaming out loud: ‘Read me! I’m showing you everything!’ ” Asif said.”

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