I just read the following study in PLOS one titled: Anatomical Brain Images Alone Can Accurately Diagnose Chronic Neuropsychiatric Illnesses.
It can be found here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050698 The claims of the study seem impressive: "In MRI datasets from persons with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Tourette Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder, or persons at high or low familial risk for Major Depressive Disorder, our method discriminated with high specificity and nearly perfect sensitivity the brains of persons who had one specific neuropsychiatric disorder from the brains of healthy participants and the brains of persons who had a different neuropsychiatric disorder." The research design seemed to be adequate (at least to me) but I don't have enough detailed information about MRI to know whether this is a really important breakthrough or just another soon-to-be-forgotten study. The fact that it was published in PLOS one rather that Science or Nature makes me suspect the latter. Would anyone with more expertise in interpreting MRI data like to provide some comments on the study? Thanks, -Don. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22249 or send a blank email to leave-22249-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
