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Can neuroscience contribute to understanding the development and treatment of mental illnesses such as depression? They are working on this in the research group for clinical neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. The work is headed by Professor Nils Inge Landrø whose collaborators include postdoctoral fellow Rune Jonassen. Pictured here is a person entering a brain scanner in the laboratory that they use. Read about the gene that makes you vulnerable to depression. Read more on the research group’s web page (in Norwegian).