Key result
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable, non-invasive neuroimaging tool that shows potential in supplementing clinical interviews to establish psychiatric diagnoses.
Population
Patients with psychiatric disorders and healthy controls
Design
Review
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May supplement psychiatric diagnosis as an adjunct; leaves open the need for prospective validation before clinical adoption.
fNIRS offers a portable, non-invasive method to measure cortical hemodynamics, showing promise as an adjunctive diagnostic tool in psychiatry.
Lai et al. (2017) conducted a review in Psychiatric disorders. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was evaluated. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable, non-invasive neuroimaging tool that shows potential in supplementing clinical interviews to establish psychiatric diagnoses.
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