Chapter 13: Toward improving the accuracy in the diagnosis of schizophrenia using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
M. Kaviya Elakkiya; Dejey Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University Regional Campus—Tirunelveli, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that distorts a person’s way of thinking, acting, expressing, relating to others, and perception. Schizophrenia is believed to be caused by the combination of genetic, physical, psychological, and environmental factors. Diagnosing schizophrenia is difficult because there are no laboratory or medical tests to straight away detect schizophrenia. Medical practitioners diagnose it by psychiatric evaluation, examining ...
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