Insights and treatment options for psychiatric disorders guided by functional MRI

Utilization of a Mobile App to Assess Psychiatric Patients With Limited English Proficiency

“…Miscommunication due to inadequate translations between patients and providers often causes negative impact on psychiatric conditions, less effective treatment, and misdiagnoses (Choi et al, 2012;Soller, Chan, & Higa, 2012). The management of psychiatric conditions requires lifelong treatment through psychotropic medications (Harrow, Jobe, & Faull, 2012;Sharma, 2003). Thus, to prevent adverse situations and improve the safety as well as the outcomes of psychiatric patients, it is necessary to provide treatment that is linguistically appropriate (Wilson, 2013).…”

Imaging and biological function in health and disease

“…Although the structural and functional determinants of schizophrenia are areas of active investigation using a wide variety of conventional techniques and approaches, functional-neuroimaging investigation now also suggests new models and possible treatment directions. T. Sharma describes insights into the treatment of schizophrenia that are emerging from neuroimaging investigations (15).…”

Efeito do nitroprussiato de sódio em voluntários saudáveis e pacientes portadores de esquizofrenia: um estudo de ressonância magnética funcional

“…Lee (Ebstein et al, 1976;Zimmer et al, 1980). Desta forma, tem se pensando que o NO exerça um efeito de tônus inibitório nos transportadores de dopamina, o que poderia corrigir uma atividade reduzida da dopamina no córtex pré-frontal e, através desse feedback, consertar a hiperatividade dopaminérgica no núcleo accumbens e corpo estriado (Pycock, Kerwin e Carter, 1980 (Sharma, 2003).…”