Book chapter
The Schizophrenia Spectrum: Perspectives from Neuroimaging
Psychotic Continuum, pp.91-106
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1995
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79485-8_8
Abstract
The growth of neuroimaging techniques over the past decade has provided psychiatrists with a set of tools which can be used to pursue some of the most fundamental questions in research in mental illness. The neuroimaging techniques have grown steadily and now include methods that permit us to study brain anatomy in increasingly fine detail, such as computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR), as well as the various functional techniques. The latter include echo planar MR, MR spectroscopy, single photon- emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron-emission tomography (PET); these functional techniques permit evaluation of brain physiology and chemistry. The goals of investigators who apply neuroimaging research techniques in psychiatry are to study basic brain-behavior relationships, and ultimately to identify the mechanisms that produce mental illnesses. In its current form, neuroimaging research aims to achieve these goals at multiple levels, i.e., to understand illnesses as diseases, as syndromes, or as symptom complexes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Schizophrenia Spectrum: Perspectives from Neuroimaging
- Creators
- N. C AndreasenM Flaum
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Psychotic Continuum, pp.91-106
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-79485-8_8
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1995
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068347002771
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