Journal article
Evaluation of Brain Imaging Techniques in Mental Illness
Annual review of medicine, Vol.39(1), pp.335-345
02/1988
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.me.39.020188.002003
PMID: 3285780
Abstract
Brain imaging is increasingly applied in psychiatry, both for clinical evaluation and as a research tool. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have documented that structural brain abnormalities occur in some types of psychiatric patients, particularly those who suffer from schizophrenia. Dynamic imaging techniques such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) have documented decreased temporoparietal activity in Alzheimer's disease, hypofrontality in schizophrenia, and a variety of abnormalities in affective and anxiety disorders. These techniques promise to teach us a great deal about the underlying neural mechanisms in mental illness.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluation of Brain Imaging Techniques in Mental Illness
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual review of medicine, Vol.39(1), pp.335-345
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.me.39.020188.002003
- PMID
- 3285780
- NLM abbreviation
- Annu Rev Med
- ISSN
- 0066-4219
- eISSN
- 1545-326X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1988
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003991702771
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