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# Spotlight: Brain changes associated with depression treatment: a meta-analysis
- URL: https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/spotlight-brain-changes-associated-with-depression-treatment-a-meta-analysis/
- Published: 2025-09-01T11:58:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-01T11:58:33.000Z
- Description: Meta-analysis of data from 302 depressed subjects yielding 87 foci across 18 experiments examining various depression treatments including pharmacology, psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, psilocybin, and ketamine with brain activity measures in response to emotion tasks in the scanner.
- Author: Michael DeMarco, PhD
- Tags: ketamine, psilocybin, psychotherapy, amygdala, research, ketamine research, psilocybin research, psychedelic research

[Brain changes associated with depression treatment: a meta-analysis - PubMedOur result, focusing on within-patient changes associated with treatment, highlights the right amygdala as a brain area especially relevant to depression treatment measured with fMRI. This finding provides a lens to focus depression biomarker research based on imaging measures that track depression …![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/a8/61a8484e-df24-47fb-903c-d012ff10c983/content/images/icon/favicon-192-88.png)PubMedGianna M Perez![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/a8/61a8484e-df24-47fb-903c-d012ff10c983/content/images/thumbnail/pubmed-meta-image-v2-87.jpg)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40886591/)

(2025) Meta-analysis of data from 302 depressed subjects yielding 87 foci across 18 experiments examining various depression treatments including pharmacology, psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, psilocybin, and ketamine with brain activity measures in response to emotion tasks in the scanner. Our result, focusing on within-patient changes associated with treatment, highlights the ****right amygdala as a brain area especially relevant to depression treatment measured with fMRI. This finding provides a lens to focus depression biomarker research based on imaging measures that track depression treatment effects.**