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Neuroimaging in psychiatry
1Division of Neuropsychiatry, Dent Neurologic Institute, Amherst, NY 14226, USA. hcapote@dentinstitute.com
Neurologic Clinics
|December 6, 2008
Abstract:
Psychiatric neuroimaging has made great strides. PET scanning to differentiate between the dementias is clinically useful and well accepted. Understanding of the pathophysiology underlying the psychopathology of psychiatric illness also is rapidly expanding. Neuroimaging quickly is becoming an indispensable part of the day-to-day clinical management of psychiatric patients.
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