Press Mentions
Slate: Could Brain Scans Bring Psychiatry Into the 21st Century?
When parents learn about Michael Milham’s research, they often ask him, “Can you give my child a brain scan to figure out what’s wrong with them?”
Milham treats his young patients like any other child psychiatrist would: He observes and interviews them, assigns them diagnoses, and prescribes courses of treatment. But unlike many psychiatrists, Milham is also a scientist—he is vice president of research at the Child Mind Institute—and an expert on functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, a tool that allows researchers to measure levels of activity across the brain.