Monte Buchsbaum

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Monte Buchsbaum is a Professor emeritus of Psychiatry and Radiology at the University of California at San Diego.[1] He was also the founder and editor in chief of Psychiatry Research and from 1979 to 2019.[2] He is the son of Invertebrate Biologist and author Ralph Buchsbaum.

Imaging research[]

Buchsbaum is a pioneer in the use of neuroimaging technology to study psychiatric disorders. In the early 1980s he, along with , performed the first positron emission tomography (PET) studies of patients with schizophrenia at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the patients had reduced glucose metabolism in the frontal lobe, a pattern known as hypofrontality.[3] His research has led to him being called as an expert witness during criminal trials.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "UCSD Profiles: Monte Buchsbaum". UCSD. Retrieved 2018-02-12. He heads the new NeuroPET Center and leads an effort in developing an expanded research effort with positron emission tomography.
  2. ^ "M.S. Buchsbaum: Editor-in-Chief, Psychiatry Research". Psychiatry Research. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. ^ Buchsbaum, Monte S. (1982). "Cerebral Glucography With Positron Tomography". Archives of General Psychiatry. 39 (3): 251–9. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290030001001. ISSN 0003-990X. PMID 6978119.
  4. ^ (2017). The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms. Penguin books. ISBN 9780698183353. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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