Mental health disorders account for a significant amount of health care expenditures, emotional suffering, economic loss and suicide throughout the world and across cultures. There is growing evidence that many mental health conditions are caused by treatable neurological ailments that can be diagnosed by currently available imaging techniques. More importantly, mental health disorders that are not currently detectable by anatomical imaging are increasingly and convincingly shown to result from faulty functional integration of cortical and subcortical neural networks, for which phenotypic functional connectivity signatures are defined with increasing precision, providing for useful imaging markers. Further and consequently, therapeutic targets and novel, creative treatment approaches are being increasingly defined so that mental health conditions that had so far no therapeutic option can now be managed successfully.  

This course provides up-to-date evidence-based information on the current status of imaging-based assessment and treatment of mental health disorders.