Brain-imaging approaches in psychiatry: early developmental considerations.
Recent advances in the neurosciences have provided important new approaches to understanding mental illness. Historically, the application of these approaches has followed patterns that parallel the scientific process of repeated testing and reexamination. In the investigation of schizophrenia, this process has focused particular attention on the frontal lobes. Special considerations should be weighed in assimilating and integrating these new approaches into our field.
Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. 20007.
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