Neuroimaging in psychiatry

Abstract

Psychiatric disordersPsychiatric disorder are generally defined by a combination of how a person feels, behaves, thinks, or perceives. The disorders may be associated with particular brain regions or functional units or with the nervous system as a whole, and are often diagnosed within a particular social context. In the past few decades, neuroimaging modalities have been developed to investigate specific brain regions thought to be involved in particular disorders. Neuroimaging has been applied in the differential diagnosis of neuropsychiatric syndromes and disorders, especially in otherwise difficult clinical contexts. Neuroimaging methodologies can also provide information about neural mechanisms and abnormal neural circuitry involved in various Psychiatric disorder psychiatric disorders. Additionally, Neuroimaging neuroimaging is an important tool for drug discovery and development.