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Warning: This Post Will Change Your Brain - Neuroskeptic. Last week I gave a talk in Brazil called Why Is It So Hard To Think About The Brain? , Well, no sooner have I returned than a story appeared that illustrates my point all too well. A neuroscience paper made headlines around the world on Friday. Here’s Time‘s take: One Dose of Antidepressant Changes the Brain, Study FindsOne dose of antidepressant is all it takes to change the brain, finds a small new study published in the journal Current Biology.The study authors took brain scans of 22 healthy people. Many other outlets covered the research in much the same terms. My concern here is over the headlines, in particular that phrase “changes the brain.” As a weak truism: in one sense, almost everything changes the brain: any sight, sound, smell, blog post, or even thought that crosses your mind, will change your brain activity.

I think the reason why this study made the headlines is that “changes the brain” can be read in another way: I’m not criticizing the paper when I say that.

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