Gaining Insight into the Pathology of Early Psychosis using Brain Imaging

April 14, 2023
Adrienne C. Lahti, MD
Heman E. Drummond Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
Heersink School of Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
The activity is designed to help the learner
1. Describe an imaging technique that could help predict treatment response to antipsychotic medication
2. Discuss the relationship between the duration of untreated psychosis and brain functional connectivity
3. Describe why the shrinking of hippocampal volumes in early psychosis is clinically relevant
4. Describe a brain imaging technique allowing the measurement of bioenergetic compounds.