Skating to Where the Puck Will Be: The Importance of Neuroimaging Literacy in Child Psychiatry
2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 47; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/chi.0b013e318185dab8
ISSN1527-5418
Autores Tópico(s)Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
ResumoAsked to explain the secret to his success, the preeminent hockey player Wayne Gretzky asserted that he skated to where the puck would be, rather than to where it was. If “the puck” in this instance is pathophysiological knowledge about pediatric psychiatric illnesses, then “skating to where the puck will be” leads us directly to the brain. Of note, this focus on the brain does not obviate an equally strong focus on the environment: data suggest that associations between environmental influences and risk for psychopathology reflect the impact of such influences on brain development. 1 Pine DS Developmental psychobiology and response to threats: relevance to trauma in children and adolescents. Biol Psychiatry. 2003; 53: 796-808 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (71) Google Scholar Thus, if child and adolescent psychiatrists are to approach patient care with state-of-the-art knowledge about psychopathology, it is important that they be knowledgeable about brain structure and function. To do that, they must be educated consumers of the emerging neuroimaging literature.
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