American Journal of Psychiatry
Fecha de publicación: 30 january 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18040429
Autores: Roscoe O. Brady Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Irene Gonsalvez , M.D., Ivy Lee , B.S., Dost Öngür , M.D., Ph.D., Larry J. Seidman , Ph.D., et al.
Background: The interpretability of results in psychiatric neuroimaging is significantly limited by an overreliance on correlational relationships. Purely correlational studies cannot alone determine whether behavior-imaging relationships are causal to illness, functionally compensatory processes, or purely epiphenomena.