ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most exciting development in clinical neuroscience in recent years has been the development and increased use of several brain-imaging techniques. These new techniques allow for much better visualization of both structural and functional properties of the brain than earlier methods. The disadvantage with more traditional neuropsychological measures is that they are inevitably only indirect indices of brain dysfunction. New brain-imaging techniques hold great promise for an exponential increase in our understanding of the type of brain abnormalities and dysfunctions that may underlie different disorders because they constitute more direct indices of CNS structure and function.
