PSYCH 098: Structural Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia
Medlock Holmes enters a vast radiological observatory where the human brain can be examined without ever being opened.
The earliest instruments are crude. Old computed tomography images reveal enlarged ventricles-dark chambers within the brain that seem wider in people with schizophrenia. The finding is important, but it is not specific enough to solve the case.
Then the observatory changes.
Magnetic resonance imaging arrives.
For the first time, Holmes can examine living grey matter, white matter, cortical thickness, hippocampal volume, and the delicate pathways connecting distant brain…
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