9.2 BRAIN STRUCTURAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: TRANSDIAGNOSTIC PET AND MRI IMAGING FINDINGS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER

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BackgroundPsychosis is seen in a number of disorders and treated with the same drugs. However, there is considerable variability in response to treatment and clinical course. Understanding the neurobiology underlying psychosis across diagnoses and in treatment response is important to help guide the development of new treatments and biomarkers for treatment response. Elevated dopamine synthesis and release capacity and structural brain changes have been consistently associated with schizophrenia, but it remains unknown how variable these are, or how they compare across psychotic disorders.