Can Brain Scans Diagnose Mental Illness?Simon Makin
it casts doubt on the practice of restricting clinical trials of treatments to participants with a single disorder, such as depression. After all, many people with mental illness have more than one diagnosis. “The question that arises is: What am I studying when I study...
compared with those of healthy people. The differences include larger ventricles (the cavities in the centre of the brain) and a smaller than average hippocampus –a structure associated with memory. Also, the area of the brain called the superior temporal gyrus, in the temporal lobe...
Changes that occur in teens' brains as they mature may help explain why the first signs ofmental illnesstend to appear during this time, researchers report. British researchers usedMRI scansto compare the brain structures of nearly 300 participants who were aged 14 to 24. The scientists discovere...
METHOD: Quantitative 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging brain scans of young male patients in the early stage of schizophrenic illness were compared with those... MH Chakos,SA Schobel,H Gu,... - 《British Journal of Psychiatry》 被引量: 356发表: 2005年 Reduction of the parahippocampal gyrus an...
Mental illness is responsible for an estimated 32.4% of years lived with disability, and is as great a health burden as heart disease and cancer, when measured in terms of decreased quality of life. Early detection of brain changes would open the door to new treatments aimed at slowing or ...
Historically, some symptoms of mental illness, such as irregular behaviour and hearing voices, have been taken as evidence of heavenly communication or possession of magical power. More recently, brain scans have directly pnked these conditions with changes in levels of neurotransmitters chemicals that...
Mental health vs. mental illness The difference between the termsmental healthandmental illnessisn’t clear to many, and the two terms are often used as if they mean the same thing—except they don’t. In short, everyone has degrees ofmentalhealth, and everyone will experience forms of a ...
A Duke University study is the first to link specific differences in brain structure to what is common across many types of mental illness.
In any given year, nearly one in five Americans meets the criteria for a diagnosis of psychiatric illness. "The idea that these disorders share some common brain architecture and that some functions could be abnormal across so many of them is intriguing," said Thomas Insel, MD, director of ...