Helen Mayberg Analysis

According to Professor Helen Mayberg (n.d.), there are many types of treatments which are very effective for depression. She points out that some of these treatments may not work for all patients. Although she does not discuss the causes of depression, she does review the types of treatments that are available today. There are many different medications that work with neurochemical systems in the brain, but cognitive behavioral therapy as well. She goes on to emphasize that we can work top-down to help with a patient’s symptoms and also work bottom-up which affects their brain (Mayberg, n.d.).

I believe the significance of her perspective is that if all of a patient’s symptoms of depression are not treated or not focused on all of their issues, depression will continue to recur. A large percentage of patients are not helped with any treatments that are available.

Based on the information obtained from this video (Mayberg, n.d.). Professor Helen Mayberg continually points out the many cons of treatment for depression. According to Mayberg, even though there are many types of treatment available, not many patients will get well or their symptoms will recur. I felt there was some contradictory information in her …show more content…
The first interpretation I had on this video was that in a clinical point of view, treatments that are not administered to all aspects of a patient’s symptoms, depression may likely to recur. My question would be if the author was assuming in the first section of her video that these patients only have chronic depression? In the concluding portion, it appears that she is discussing episodic disorder, which would imply that she is focusing on non-chronic depression in which it is not present at all times. In this case, she is assuming that any type of treatment is not going to help the patient get