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February 1, 2010

Objective Diagnosis Of PTSD Using Magnetoencephalography

Objective diagnosis is in someways the holy grail of medicine.  It has been maddeningly elusivein psychiatry.  Now comes a paper in which the authors suggestthat they may have found this treasure.The paper details a method of using magnetoencephalography to assesshuman brain function.  They claim that, in a select population, itcan correctly identify patients with PTSD with 90% acc

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