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Published Online: 25 January 2022

A Systematic Approach to Neuropsychiatric Intervention: Functional Neuroanatomy Underlying Symptom Domains as Targets for Treatment

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An ever-growing population experiences a wide range of psychopathologies, and there is now more than ever a need for clear differential diagnoses between disorders. Furthering this need is the fact that many psychological, psychiatric, and neurological disorders have overlapping features. Functional neuroimaging has been shown to differentiate not only between the function of different brain structures but also between the roles of these structures in functional networks. The aim of this article is to aid in the goal of parsing out disorders on the basis of specific symptom domains by utilizing the most recent literature on functional networks. Current literature on the role of brain networks in relation to different psychopathological symptom domains is examined and corresponding circuit-based therapies that have been or may be used to treat them are discussed. Research on depression, obsession and compulsions, addiction, anxiety, and psychosis is reviewed. An understanding of networks and their specific dysfunctions opens the possibility of a new form of psychopathological treatment.

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Published in print: Winter 2022
Published online: 25 January 2022

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  1. Behavioral therapy (neuropsychiatric aspects)
  2. Neuroanatomy

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Taylor Kuhn, Ph.D. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (all authors) and UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (Spivak), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jonathan Haroon, B.S.
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (all authors) and UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (Spivak), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (all authors) and UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (Spivak), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Send correspondence to Dr. Kuhn ([email protected]).

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The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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This work was funded by grant 5T32GM008042 to Mr. Spivak from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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