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Dealing with depression is not easy.
And it doesn't help that it is really difficult to find effective treatments for it.
Your genetics, your environment, and various factors in your brain all seem to play a role in whether you develop depression and how you experience it.
So the most common treatments don't work for everyone.
Some researchers think that the solution to this is personalized medicine: using information about a patient's symptoms or even their genome to match them to drugs that actually help.
"Personalized medicine" sometimes sounds like a futuristic buzzword, but there are already big projects looking into it — and they're making some progress.
So for depression, these kind of treatments might actually not be that far off.
One of these projects is spearheaded by a group called CAN-BIND, short for Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression.
