PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY AND BRAIN IMAGING IN DEPRESSION

In the past three decades, psychoneuroendocrinologic investigations ha ve generated a great volume of information, particularly in the field of affective disorders, which has formed the basis for designing studi es with newer tools such as anatomic and functional imaging. Ln this a rticle, the authors focus on endocrine imaging in psychiatry and attem pt to relate morphometric findings to physiologic neuroendocrine dysfu nction in depression.