Submitted by okapi-forest-unicorn t3_zilvg3 in askscience
chazwomaq t1_izw4vqt wrote
Reply to comment by cololz1 in Could we scan the brain to diagnose conditions like autism and ADD? by okapi-forest-unicorn
Oh that's interesting I didn't know about this study. However, on reading it, rCBF doesn't look precise enough for individual level diagnosis. To rely on that alone would probably yield loads of false positives and miss many true positives. And since people often know they have depression as its symptoms are subjective, a pencil and paper test seems much more efficient.
But perhaps in the future biomarker(s) will prove accurate for psychological conditions.
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