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Is it true that depression can be diagnosed with a pet scan?
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No hard scientific data at this point and merely soft conjectural correlation in a few cases. But a very expensive approach. SPECT scans have similar non proven data and those are vascular flow results
Answered 3/19/2023
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Depression can be diagnosed without any imaging studies.
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