Monte Buchsbaum is a Professor emeritus of

Psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

and

Radiology Radiology ( ) is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide treatment within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiation), but tod ...

at the

University of California at San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Sc ...

. He was also the founder and editor in chief of ''

Psychiatry Research ''Psychiatry Research'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering psychiatry. It was established in 1979 and is published 21 times per year by Elsevier. A section of the journal, '' Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging'', covers the discipline of ne ...

'' and '' Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging'' from 1979 to 2019. He is the son of Invertebrate Biologist and author

Ralph Buchsbaum Ralph Morris Buchsbaum (January 2, 1907 – February 11, 2002) was an American zoologist, invertebrate biologist, and ecologist. His book ''Animals Without Backbones'', first published in 1938, was the first textbook in biology to be reviewed by ...

Imaging research

Buchsbaum is a pioneer in the use of neuroimaging technology to study psychiatric disorders. In the early 1980s he, along with David Ingvar, performed the first

positron emission tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, r ...

(PET) studies of patients with schizophrenia at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the patients had reduced glucose metabolism in the frontal lobe, a pattern known as hypofrontality. His research has led to him being called as an expert witness during criminal trials.

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