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Sight and Insight: Brain Dopamine Receptor Occupancy by Neuroleptics Visualised in Living Schizophrenic Patients by Positron Emission Tomography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John L. Waddington
John L. Waddington*
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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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There can be few more impressive sights in contemporary neuroscience and biological psychiatry than the imaging of neurotransmitter receptors in the brains of living human subjects by positron emission tomography (PET; Sedvall et al, 1986). How has such technology advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology and/or treatment of major psychiatric disorders?

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 4 , April 1989 , pp. 433 - 436
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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