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Visualizing the architecture of psychiatry

High-resolution diffusion imaging: ready to become more than just a research tool in psychiatry?

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Key to achieving this new level of scanning speed and resolution are hardware improvements such as those flowing from the human Connectome project,10 software advances8 and the implementation of ‘multiband’ technology, which offers up to 8-fold acceleration.11 dMRI has now achieved sufficient anatomical specificity to permit reliable and routine isolation of the circuits at an individual patient level—meaning that we can now start to untangle the emerging structural basis for a number of psychiatric conditions. The challenge for imaging scientists and psychiatrists now is to conceive and carry out the right kind of large, collaborative clinically orientated studies that are designed to identify and validate novel ways of using this new capability to change the way we diagnose, stratify psychiatric disease and make treatment decisions on our patients.

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Grieve, S., Maller, J. High-resolution diffusion imaging: ready to become more than just a research tool in psychiatry?. Mol Psychiatry 22, 1082–1084 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.170

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