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How Psychotherapy Affects the Brain

Psychotherapy, also known as "talk therapy," can help people identify and change harmful thinking and behaviors, and it can produce changes in the brain. One of our videos in partnership with Everwell.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

A Patient’s Choice in Treatment Affects PTSD Outcomes

Patients given their treatment of choice stayed in the program longer and showed fewer symptoms at the end of one study than those randomly assigned to treatment that they did not prefer.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Of Mindfulness and Incarceration

Spending time in jail or prison can harm a person’s brain functions related to cognitive control and emotional regulation. An intervention combining mindfulness meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy appears to offset this effect in teenage boys for at least a few months. 
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Depression: Treatment Beyond Medication

The American College of Physicians new clinical practice guidelines suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an equally viable choice to treat adults with depression.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

A Road Paved by Reason

With its emphasis on problem solving, cognitive therapy has helped generations of people with disorders such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder—and other applications may follow.

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