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A review of SPECT studies in psychiatry in China

Authors Shenxun Shi, Liang Shu

Published 15 March 2006 Volume 2006:2(1) Pages 43—51



Shenxun Shi, Liang Shu

Psychiatric Department of Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China

Background: Studies of mental disorders using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) have been done for many years in China. Many results have been obtained. We review these findings and introduce them to the outside world.

Keywords: depression, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, SPECT