CHAPTER 21: Translational PET Imaging Research in Psychiatry
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Published:08 Oct 2012
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Special Collection: 2012 ebook collection , 2011-2015 industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry subject collectionSeries: Drug Discovery
R. J. Hargreaves and E. A. Rabiner, in Drug Discovery for Psychiatric Disorders, ed. Z. Rankovic, M. Bingham, E. J. Nestler, and R. Hargreaves, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012, pp. 558-573.
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The goal of any early central nervous system (CNS) drug development program is always to test the mechanism and not the molecule in order to support additional research investments in late-phase clinical trials. Confirmation that drugs reach their targets using translational positron emission tomography (PET) imaging markers of engagement is central to successful clinical proof-of-concept testing and has become an important feature of most neuropsychiatric drug development programs. CNS PET imaging can also play an important role in the clinical investigation of the neuropharmacological basis of psychiatric disease and the optimization of drug therapy.
