You’ll sometimes hear psychotherapy referred to as “talking therapy,” and it’s not entirely wrong. Some routes of treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), can involve a lot of talking as therapists work with clients to try and question negative patterns of thinking and pave the way for a fresh outlook. Thing is, people aren’t always convinced that it can be as effective as “hard” approaches like medicine, but now, scientists have found evidence of physical and measurable changes in the brain following CBT. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.
The study looked at the brains of 30 people diagnosed with acute depression using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They took scans both before and after