Monte Buchsbaum

American psychiatrist

Monte Buchsbaum is a Professor emeritus of Psychiatry and Radiology at the University of California at San Diego.[1] He was also the founder and editor in chief of Psychiatry Research and Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging from 1979 to 2019.[2] He is the son of Invertebrate Biologist and author Ralph Buchsbaum.

## Imaging research

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Buchsbaum is a pioneer in the use of neuroimaging technology to study psychiatric disorders. In the early 1980s he, along with David Ingvar, performed the first positron emission tomography (PET) studies of patients with schizophrenia at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the patients had reduced glucose metabolism in the frontal lobe, a pattern known as hypofrontality.[3] His research has led to him being called as an expert witness during criminal trials.[4]

## References

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1. ^ "UCSD Profiles: Monte Buchsbaum". UCSD. Retrieved 2018-02-12. "He heads the new NeuroPET Center and leads an effort in developing an expanded research effort with positron emission tomography."
2. ^ "M.S. Buchsbaum: Editor-in-Chief, Psychiatry Research". Psychiatry Research. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
3. ^ Buchsbaum, Monte S. (1982). "Cerebral Glucography With Positron Tomography". Archives of General Psychiatry. 39 (3): 251–9\. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290030001001. ISSN 0003-990X. PMID 6978119.
4. ^ Kevin Davis (2017). The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms. Penguin books. ISBN 9780698183353. Retrieved 2018-02-12.

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