This Neuroimaging Method Has 100% Diagnostic Accuracy (or your money back)

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129659.g003Did you know that SPECT imaging can diagnose PTSD with 100% accuracy (Amen et al., 2015)? Not only that, out of a sample of 397 patients from the Amen Clinic in Newport Beach, SPECT was able to distinguish between four different groups with 100% accuracy! That's right, the scans of (1) healthy participants, and patients with (2) classic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), (3) classic traumatic brain injury (TBI), and (4) both disorders..... were all classified with 100% accuracy!TRACK-TBI investigators, your 3T structural and functional MRI outcome measures are obsolete.NIMH, the hard work of developing biomarkers for mental illness is done, you can shut down now. Except none of this research was funded by you...The finding was #19 in a list of the top 100 stories by Discover Magazine.How could the Amen Clinics, a for-profit commercial enterprise, accomplish what an army of investigators with billions in federal funding could not?The authors1 relied on a large database of scans collected from multiple sites over a 20 year period. The total sample included 20,746 individuals who visited one of nine Amen Clinics from 1995-2014 for psychiatric and/or neurological evaluation (Amen et al., 2015). The first analysis included a smaller, highly selected sample matched on a number of dimensions, including psychiatric comorbidities (Group 1).- click on image for larger view -You'll notice the percentage of patients with ADHD was remar...
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