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Brain imaging and its application to major psychiatric disorders such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and schizophrenia is one of the most exciting fields in psychiatry today.This thought-provoking collection details the work of five scientists who report some of the most recent findings in the field, review the relevant data in the literature, and place this research within a critical neuroscience context. Each chapter tells a fascinating story. The first chapter reviews the strengths and limitations of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and suggests that fMRI may achieve its greatest utility in the search for the genetic bases for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.Subsequent chapters emphasize the importance of cognitive deficits in our understanding of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and OCD, explain a compelling new way of using fMRI to investigate mood and anxiety disorders in children, and present both structural and functional brain imaging findings in patients with late-life depression, examining how they compare to younger patients with major depression and raising an intriguing question of trait versus state. This provocative volume concludes by presenting a distinctive longitudinal and intensely multimodal neuroscience approach, showing that some brain abnormalities appear to depend on the patient's mood and that other neurophysiologic differences persist even after treatment.Researchers and clinicians alike will find that this remarkable volume enhances their understanding of the theory and practice of brain imaging in psychiatry and offers an exciting glimpse of the future directions of both the technology and the science.

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