Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry: a critical appraisal

Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry

Functional neuroimaging has rapidly developed as a powerful tool in cognitive neuroscience and, in recent years, has seen widespread application in psychiatry. Although, such studies have produced evidence for abnormal patterns of brain response in association with some pathological conditions, the core pathophysiologies remain unresolved. Although, imaging techniques provide an unprecedented o...

Functional neuroimaging in child psychiatry.

Functional neuroimaging in child psychiatry presents unique scientific, ethical, and technical challenges. The study of childhood disorders presupposes knowledge of neurodevelopment and brain maturation. However, much of human brain science is based on inferences from animal work and indirect neurochemical measures from body fluids. Neuroimaging can examine brain development directly in humans....

Functional neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Functional connexin "hemichannels": a critical appraisal.

"Hemichannels" are defined as the halves of gap junction channels (also termed connexons) that are contributed by one cell; "hemichannels" are considered to be functional if they are open in nonjunctional membranes in the absence of pairing with partners from adjacent cells. Several recent reviews have summarized the blossoming literature regarding functional "hemichannels", in some cases encyc...

Critical Appraisal

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