Psychology & Psychiatry

Mind and molecules—Fingerprinting psychiatric illness

Diagnosis of mood and psychotic disorders depend solely on relatively subjective assessment of symptoms and psychometric evaluations, upon which a decision is made to prescribe one or more standardised treatment regimen. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Early COPD diagnosis possible with nuclear medicine

In vivo ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) imaging can detect early changes to the lung caused by cigarette smoke exposure and provides a noninvasive method for studying lung dysfunction in preclinical models, according to research ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

S.Africa conducts trials for shorter TB treatment

South African researchers said Friday they were conducting medical trials to shorten the duration of tuberculosis treatment to make it easier for patients to complete the full regimen.

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