title: Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in psychiatric disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report on recent advances in both structural and functional brain imaging studies in psychiatry and to highlight their importance for the field.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed recently published articles dealing with such advances and abstracted them into a selective review of the field.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some of the more important trends include integration of genetic information into research studies, use of novel quantitative image measurement techniques, studies of new subject populations, the use of pharmacologic probes in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, the incorporation of elements of virtual reality into fMRI task stimuli, and the methodological innovation of hyperscanning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A whole series of new approaches and techniques are resulting in rapid advances in neuroimaging in psychiatry. Several of these show the potential for clinical translation.
authors.affiliation: Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA. godfrey.pearlson@yale.edu
authors.forename: Godfrey D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Pearlson
authors.forename: Vince
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Calhoun
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000378:metabolism*; D019208:Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002394:Catechol O-Methyltransferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004569:Electroencephalography; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D019208:Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; D002394:Catechol O-Methyltransferase