Posted by Willful on July 14, 2013, at 16:10:39
In reply to Re: Images of 'Damaged' Brains? Or Bad Science?, posted by SLS on July 14, 2013, at 12:01:32
~~"Several of the foremost experts in brain imaging are psychiatrists. Mark E. Schmidt and Terrence A. Ketter come to mind. "
- Scott
I'm surprised to hear that the leading experts on brain imaging are psychiatrists. I wonder how they get their training, particularly in Dr. Amen's generation, since most imaging research is relatively recent. Perhaps more recently, it's been included in the curriculum, but I would have thought neuroscientists would be the main experts in the field. But what do I know? really, I would like more information on this if anyone knows more about it.Nonetheless, brain imaging doesn't seem to be a core part of psychiatry, at least if one draws anything from its lack of much inclusion as a basis of DSM 5.
(from one critique of DSM 5: ...." This volume will tweak several current diagnostic categories, from autism spectrum disorders to mood disorders. While many of these changes have been contentious, the final product involves mostly modest alterations of the previous edition, based on new insights emerging from research since 1990 when DSM-IV was published. ...The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever. Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment.." Tom Insel, http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml)
Anyway, it's a very interesting subject and I personally hope we can have a discussion of it here sometime.
PS sorry for double posting-- I'm not sure how that happened
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