Journal article
Brain imaging: Applications in psychiatry
Behavioral sciences & the law, Vol.5(3), pp.223-238
1987
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2370050303
Abstract
For more than a century psychiatrists have suspected neuropathology in patients with mental illness. In the last decade there have been developed several technologies that are capable of looking at both neuroanatomy and neurophysiology in the brains of living humans. First, x‐ray computerized axial tomography led the way in visualizing the living brain, and now magnetic resonance imaging allows brain structure to be shown with even more clarity. Brain electrical activity mapping allows computerized maps of electrophysiological activity to be visualized in a way never before possible. Nuclear medicine has provided the means of looking at various metabolic and neurochemical parameters in the living brain. These include regional cerebral blood flow studies using xenon133, single photon emission tomography, and positron emission tomography. Psychiatrists are cautiously optimistic that these various brain imaging technologies will be important new tools in continued exploration of the causes of mental illness and ultimately may lead to more effective treatments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Brain imaging: Applications in psychiatry
- Creators
- Victor W SwayzeWilliam YatesNancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavioral sciences & the law, Vol.5(3), pp.223-238
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/bsl.2370050303
- ISSN
- 0735-3936
- eISSN
- 1099-0798
- Number of pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1987
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068256302771
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