Objectives: To review recent neuroimaging studies of serious emotional disorders in youth and identify problems and promise of neuroimaging in clinical practice.
Method: Published reports from refereed journals are briefly described, critiqued, and synthesized into a summary of the findings to date.
Results:
Conclusions: Results from neuroimaging studies of childhood-onset psychiatric disorders suggest consistency in the structures found to be abnormal, but inconsistencies in the nature of these abnormalities. Although neuroimaging technology holds great promise for neurodevelopmental research, it is not yet a diagnostic instrument.
J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2000, 39(7):815-828.
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Author/s: Robert L. Hendren
Issue: July, 2000
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