The role of neuroimaging and electrophysiology (EEG) as predictors of treatment response in major depressive disorder

This paper describes how neuroimaging and other techniques may aid in the provision of psychiatric care. Neuroimaging techniques are utilized in the research setting, but as the cost of technology lowers and techniques become more standardized, psychopharmacologists in the future may more readily utilize these technologies to better aid diagnosis and treatment selection. Using major depressive disorder as an example, this paper seeks to review neuroimaging studies and techniques which clinicians will have to master in the future and provides a review of the literature on neuroimaging and quantitative EEG in major depressive disorder.