Advances in Psychoradiology
Member-Initiated Symposium

ORGANIZERS: Ulrike Dydak, Qiyong Gong

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Session Number: MIS-24

Overview
This Symposium was proposed by the Psychiatric MR Spectroscopy & Imaging study group.

Psychoradiology, i.e. clinical psychiatric imaging, is a rapidly emerging subfield of radiology, which utilizes advanced neuroimaging approaches to improve differential diagnosis and individualized patient care for common psychiatric illnesses. The possibility of multimodal MRI allowing for assessment of brain tissue at the structural, functional, and molecular level has helped the translation of psychoradiology into clinical practice. Both qualitative and quantitative imaging markers of mental disorders have been identified and are starting to impact clinical workflow. The status of psychoradiology in clinical practice, its potential to measure psychopharmaceutical effects, and future challenges will be discussed in the first talk. 

This symposium will further complement the ISMRM program, which introduces the field of psychoradiology in an educational session, by highlighting the most recent state-of-the-art technical developments and novel applications in this field. Speakers will discuss genetic MRI in schizophrenia, DTI approaches in dementia, large-scale meta-analyses of structural abnormalities in mental illnesses, and how to apply machine learning and resting state fMRI to predict mental illness in the individual patient. Finally, interventional psychoradiology, involving the prediction of treatment response by use of fMRI, perfusion imaging, brain connectivity and MEG will be highlighted for schizophrenia in the last talk.


Target Audience
Basic scientists and trainees using neuroimaging in psychiatric research, and physicians interested in the possibilities of MRI in clinical psychiatry.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the history and clinical need for the field of psychoradiology;
- Evaluate emerging imaging techniques that could impact clinical applications relevant to psychiatric illnesses;
- Describe the current state of knowledge and MR imaging approaches for investigating and diagnosing psychiatric illnesses; and
- Recognize key imaging findings in major psychiatric illnesses and how they can be examined by MRI.