Wiliams jmicha5...@aol.com
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 11:09:22 PM
Subject: Re:[tips] MRI Diagnosis
Two features of the study seem fishy. The first is the manual
designations of individual brain areas. Although
I just read the following study in PLOS one titled: Anatomical Brain Images
Alone Can Accurately Diagnose Chronic Neuropsychiatric Illnesses.
It can be found here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050698
The claims of the study seem impressive:
In MRI
Two features of the study seem fishy. The first is the manual
designations of individual brain areas. Although they studied the
reliability of the designations and
appeared very careful, there must be some persistent error in defining
the brain areas. The second is that people making these
