Investigating altered connectivity in the depressed adolescent brain

Depression is a common mental disorder among adolescents, yet the underlying biology is not well understood. In this interview from the 2023 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (11–15 November; Washington DC, USA), Margot Wagner (left), a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute (both CA, USA), discusses her results from a project using deep learning techniques to obtain biomarkers from MRI scans from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Could you tell us about the study you presented at SfN? We looked at functional connectivity in depressed adolescents. Functional connectivity is...