Monte Buchsbaum

Monte Buchsbaum is a Professor emeritus of Psychiatry and Radiology at the University of California, San Diego.

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 (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.