Medical Imaging Research in Psychology and Psychiatry: A picture is worth a thousands words, but is it really telling you anything?
Speaker(s)
Imaging studies meant to inform diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment utilize medical imaging methods that are often difficult to interpret and utilize in practical ways. This training will improve the average clinicians ability to access this literature in an appropriately critical manner by providing clinical providers with basic skills and knowledge that will be useful in interpreting imaging research in psychological and psychiatric patient populations. We will discuss types of imaging studies and basic imaging measures in the context of several important studies of psychiatric and psychological diagnosis such as PTSD, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, and drug addiction.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will understand and be able to define basic medical imaging methods and terms commonly used in the research literature.
2. Attendees will be able to demonstrate these basic medical imaging methods and terms using current psychological and psychiatric research literature.
3. Attendees will understand the basic biological information revealed with imaging methods in the context of depression, PTSD, schizophrenia, and drug addiction.
