Context: I'm someone who's struggled with depression myself, and have seen many others go through the same. I'm better now, and I want to help. Lot of the research I found talk about brain imaging to find the parts of the brain currently activated (under some stressors), and propose solutions.<p>I'm curious about:
1. the current state of brain imaging technology to accurately identify solutions to help a depressed person
2. what are the blockers to allowing individuals to analyze their own brain state with at-home technologies?<p>Thank you.
The brain imagining stuff doesn't look all that impressive.<p>The thing that seems to keep popping up by high quality sources is magic mushrooms curing depression.<p>In the now post-cannabis legalization world there's going to be political push for medical other drugs. So I take this psilocybin stuff with a grain of salt. Yet it's hard to discount these quality sources and surprisingly results.<p>I've never done 'shrooms' so I can't speak to any personal experience but it does get me curious.