Using brain imaging to diagnose mental illness

To mark Mental Health Week, we meet Associate Professor Marta Garrido. Dr Garrido was a laboratory leader at QBI, and won a highly competitive UQ Research award for her work in schizophrenia. Her work at QBI included researching ways to use brain imaging to identify the onset of schizophrenia as soon as possible, to provide that all-important early intervention. But to understand how the brain works in people at risk of schizophrenia, Dr Garrido says we need to stop thinking of people as mentally healthy or mentally ill. Instead, we need to think of it as a spectrum.