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Article: Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia: Insights and Applications

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Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia: Insights and Applications Tonmoy Sharma and Xavier Chitnis Chicago, IL: Remedied Publishing, 2000, 67 pages, $24

This is a booklet of 5 short chapters covering brain imaging in schizophrenia. It starts with 2 chapters on structural and functional imaging of the brain, continues with 2 more chapters on the application of structural and functional brain imaging to schizophrenia, and ends with a chapter on factors, both genetic and nongenetic, that might affect brain imaging in schizophrenia. Although the authors, from the Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K., do not specify the audience, the general and introductory overtone suggests that the booklet is mostly ...

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