Sight and Insight: Brain Dopamine Receptor Occupancy by Neuroleptics Visualised in Living Schizophrenic Patients by Positron Emission Tomography
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 154 (4), 433-436
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.154.4.433
Abstract
There can be few more impressive sights in contemporary neuroscience and biological psychiatry than the imaging of neurotransmitter receptors in the brains of living human subjects by positron emission tomography (PET; Sedvall et al, 1986). How has such technology advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology and/or treatment of major psychiatric disorders?Keywords
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