Looking At A Picture Of Your Mom Could Diagnose Depression

We know WE get depressed when we look at your mom. Ha!
All joking aside, this is actually a pretty amazing tool. As the study finished, the researchers realized they could detect depression with a stunning 90% accuracy when they looked at brain scans while their subject looked a pictures of their mom.
The problem is that we don’t quite know why a correlation exist, though, we’re sure Freud would be having a field day with this. We do know, however, that it’s a pretty crazy and strong phenomenon that warrants more and more study, that’s for sure.
Knowing why this happens could be pretty important in understanding and treating depression.
[Image via AP Images.]