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Old Jun 11, 2010, 07:06 PM
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I suspect the state of the art in using brain scans for diagnosing non-organic mental illness and/or distinguishing between various kinds is not very advanced, and therefore not very useful for making differential diagnoses, and certainly not useful for purposes of therapy. At the moment it is largely a research topic, is my impression.
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