Yale University
Imaging test could be used to diagnose schizophrenia
Published in Medical Imaging Week, May 22nd, 2004
"These results seem to point to a cardinal abnormality in schizophrenia," said Godfrey Pearlson, MD, professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, director of the Olin Neurospychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living in Hartford, and senior author of the study published in Biological Psychiatry. "Using this imaging test, we were able to identify patients with schizophrenia with 97% accuracy."
Pearlson, Vince Calhoun and Kent Kiehl later replicated...
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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2004-05-22)
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