To improve mental health treatments, scientists try to dissect the pieces that make them work
To improve mental health treatments, scientists are using "back translation" to try to dissect how they work.
Successful mental health treatments can function like a conversation: The brain hears some kind of message — whether it’s from a drug or another approach — and the brain responds in a way that alleviates some symptoms.
Scientists are listening in on those conversations — and trying to “back translate” them to figure out how successful treatments actually work. And that effort is about to get a big boost: The nonprofit Wellcome Trust recently announced a
