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The Schizophrenia Spectrum: Perspectives from Neuroimaging

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Psychotic Continuum

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The growth of neuroimaging techniques over the past decade has provided psychiatrists with a set of tools which can be used to pursue some of the most fundamental questions in research in mental illness. The neuroimaging techniques have grown steadily and now include methods that permit us to study brain anatomy in increasingly fine detail, such as computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR), as well as the various functional techniques. The latter include echo planar MR, MR spectroscopy, single photon- emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron-emission tomography (PET); these functional techniques permit evaluation of brain physiology and chemistry. The goals of investigators who apply neuroimaging research techniques in psychiatry are to study basic brain-behavior relationships, and ultimately to identify the mechanisms that produce mental illnesses. In its current form, neuroimaging research aims to achieve these goals at multiple levels, i.e., to understand illnesses as diseases, as syndromes, or as symptom complexes.

This research was supported in part by NIMH Grants MH 31593, MH40856 and MHCRC 43271, The Nellie Ball Trust Fund, Iowa State Bank, and Trust Company, Trustee, and a Research Scientist Award, MH 00625.

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  1. The Department of Psychiatry, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, MHCRC, 2911 JPP, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242, USA

    N. C. Andreasen

  2. The Department of Psychiatry, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa, 55242, USA

    M. Flaum

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  1. Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- Wittenberg, 06097, Halle, Germany

    Andreas Marneros

  2. Department of Psychiatry MHCRC, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 2911, JPP, 200 Hawkins Dr, 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Nancy C. Andreasen MD, Ph.D

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Brockton/West VA Medical Roxbury, 940 Belmont Street, 02401, Brockton, MA, USA

    Ming T. Tsuang MD, Ph.D, D.Sc

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Andreasen, N.C., Flaum, M. (1995). The Schizophrenia Spectrum: Perspectives from Neuroimaging. In: Marneros, A., Andreasen, N.C., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Psychotic Continuum. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79485-8_8

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