Why are psychiatric imaging methods clinically unreliable? Conclusions and practical guidelines for authors, editors and reviewers

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Borgwardt, Stefan ^a   Radua, Joaquim ^b   Mechelli, Andrea ^b   Fusar Poli, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meta analyses; Neuroimaging; Region of interest; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

AUTHORSHIP; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEUROIMAGING; PEER REVIEW; RESEARCH;

EID: 84865540917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-8-46     Document Type: Note

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