Imaging Brain Circuits Underlying Psychiatric Disorders
an HBI 101 Talk
David A. Silbersweig, MD
Chairman Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
This talk will describe advances in functional neuroimaging and how they are transforming the understanding of psychiatric disorders through the localization and characterization of brain circuit abnormalities. Studies of depression, PTSD and schizophrenia will be discussed as a neuroscientific foundation for future clinical interventions.