How do Dopaminergic Agonist Drugs Work in Depression
There are lots of treatments for depression, but none of them work as well as we would like. This has prompted an interest in other approaches to treatment that might be useful. One candidate pharmacological treatment is dopamine agonist medications (such as pramipexole). In this talk I will describe a study that has investigated how these agents might work in depression. This study uses computational modelling and neuroimaging. I will try my best to convince the audience that, rather than just being bafflingly complex techniques completely divorced from clinical reality, these techniques can actually tell us something interesting about treatment mechanisms in psychiatry.
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Meeting ID: 926 7926 2959
Passcode: 560251
Date:
23 May 2023, 9:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Venue:
Seminar Room
Speaker:
Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Psychiatry
Organiser:
Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
rania.elgarf@psych.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Geri Campbell,
Diana Verley,
Katherine Shepherd,
Rania Elgarf
