Conor Liston — Targeted mental health treatments through psychiatry and neuroscience
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Conor Liston, Asst Professor at Cornell and head of the Liston Laboratory, discusses how targeted treatments for mental illnesses are possible, why they are necessary, and the future of these treatments.
Currently, mental illnesses are diagnosed through the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. Unfortunately, many diagnoses rely on self-reported symptoms by patients–and because symptoms can be subjective to each patients, ultimately these may not lead to the most accurate diagnoses. Conor Liston, and his team at the Liston Laboratory, believe that by using brain scans, we can not only more accurately diagnose mental illnesses, but ultimately predict which treatments a person will most likely respond to. Already, their research has uncovered some fascinating discoveries about mental illnesses, in particular depression, and paves the way for new advances in treatment.
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| 1:19.4 | at Cornell and head of the lab there. Connor Liston, Connor, how you doing? |
| 1:24.2 | I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks so much. So first question, let's get right into the work that you do in the lab. |
| 1:31.3 | What is it? |
| 1:32.3 | What are you working on and what's the significance of it? |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, so I'm a psychiatrist and a neuroscientist, and the research we do in my lab operates at the |
| 1:40.3 | interface between these two fields. |
| 1:43.3 | And we're trying to understand at a basic kind of circuit level, how different brain circuits |
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