Working in Movement

A study in Canada has shown that depressed people can respond to anti-depressant drug therapy or talk-based cognitive therapy. But the results show up in different parts of the brain, according to) PET brain scans done as part of the study. Those brains (and their people, one presumes) exposed to the cognitive therapy showed changed patterns first in the cortex, the thinking part of the brain. Those exposed to the anti-depressant drugs showed their changes first in the "lower" parts of the brain.

What's interesting about this from a movement education point of view is that it's one more bit of evidence that conscious activity, done with awareness, can produce profound (and desired) effects in the nervous system.