From Scanner to Bedside: Building Bridges in Translational Psychiatric Neuroimaging

What is it about?

Diagnostic neuroradiologists working at the intersection of psychiatric imaging and clinical neuroimaging are well-positioned to advance imaging psychiatry workflows and assist in the implementation of psychiatric neuroimaging studies within the clinical setting. Research imaging protocols are rarely designed and built for the clinical environment and often include pulse sequences and hardware requirements that are either not available on traditional clinical scanners and/or are too long to be feasibly acquired on clinical timescales. Engaging neuroradiologists and physician-scientists working at the intersection of psychiatric neuroimaging and clinical neuroimaging can foster unique viewpoints regarding clinical and operational feasibility, protocol generalizability, and human neuropathology.

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