Brain imaging in psychiatry: another look.
Computerized brain imaging techniques have been increasingly used in research into psychiatric disorders. Structural imaging has disclosed subtle brain abnormalities in conditions such as schizophrenia. Functional imaging has shown that metabolic changes in the brain in Alzheimer's disease predate cerebral atrophy and has demonstrated unusual patterns of function in psychotic illnesses.
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Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London.
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