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A technique is helpful to the clinician when it helps to explain the clinical presentation and/or when it helps to predict the future course, and/or when it correctly channels a treatment. Neuroimaging techniques are, in this respect, a classical example. The best known technique, the CT scan, is in fact relevant for the identification, for the management and for the follow-up of many organic brain syndromes, from tumors to hydrocephalus to cerebrovascular disorders. However, the CT scan is useless for explaining widespread neuropsychiatrie disorders such as depression, anxiousness, psychosis. These disorders in fact belong to the “functional” sphere and not to the “organic” brain syndromes in the present context of these definitions.
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Lenzi, G.L., Fazio, F., Fieschi, C. (1987). Positron Emission Tomography in Cerebrovascular Disorders: Results and Perspectives. In: Heiss, WD., Pawlik, G., Herholz, K., Wienhard, K. (eds) Clinical efficacy of positron emission tomography. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3345-3_7
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