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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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This is a positron-emission-tomography (PET) image of a depressive patient without medication (left) with elevated monoamine-oxidase-A-levels (green, yellow, red) and after a six-week-treatment with the monoamine-oxidase-A-inhibitor moclobemid (right).

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Sacher et al., 2011, J Psy Neurosci.

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