title: [Clinical imaging in psychiatry].
abstract: Brain imaging has made surprisingly remarkable progress since the early, and now historic days, of invasive radiology, which has now been replaced with a number of spectacularly precise techniques: structural (CT Scan, MRI) and functional (PET, SPECT) imaging, direct imaging during neurosurgery, EEG and its computer-assisted derivatives, and transcerebral ultrasonography. We present five cases with two alleged autisms, a cerebral malaria, a panic disorder and to Parkinson disease with a depressive component. Using modern imaging methods the following respective diagnoses were arrived at: a left temporal cyst, a Sanfilippo mucopolysaccharidosis, a septum lucidum agenesis, a right temporal cyst, and a pituitary adenoma. These cases illustrate the scientific, emotional and philosophical impact, on physicians, and patients alike, of modern imaging technology. Neuroradiology, biochemistry and surgical imaging require a multi disciplinary approach and a perfect knowledge of psychiatric semeiology. In addition, they stimulate us to carefully reassess our sociocultural understanding to mental illness.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Neuro-Psychologie, Paris.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Jabourian
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Benhamou
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bitton
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009083:Mucopolysaccharidoses / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012688:Septum Pellucidum / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed