Abstract

Background: Depression is a common psychiatric illness affecting all age groups with high life time prevalence. Recurrent depressive disorder is diagnosed from the time of second episode of depression. Psychiatry specialty has started searching for a biological basis of illness with recent advances in functional imaging techniques, like Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography to identify changes in cerebral perfusion pattern associated with psychiatric illness Aim and objectives: To study cerebral perfusion changes in Recurrent Depressive Disorder subjects in different regions of brain using SPECT scan during depressive episode and during clinical remission

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