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"The ENIGMA Consortium, which Thompson helped create, is one effort to make this easy. The group maintains a database with more than 50,000 MRI scans. And scientists have already used that to identify brain differences associated with schizophrenia.

"There's huge differences all over the brain in schizophrenia," Thompson says. "The auditory centers that are involved in hallucinations are abnormal. There's alterations in memory systems, in vision systems."

But it may take even larger studies to find the brain areas and connections associated with mental illnesses like depression and bipolar disorder because the differences are far more subtle."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/26/1094319294/mri-brain-scan-mental-illness-brain-research