How doctors generate diagnostic hypotheses: a study of radiological diagnosis with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

In medical practice, diagnostic hypotheses are often made by physicians in the first moments of contact with patients; sometimes even before they report their symptoms. We propose that generation of diagnostic hypotheses in this context is the result of cognitive processes subserved by brain mechani...

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Main Authors: Marcio Melo, Daniel J Scarpin, Edson Amaro, Rodrigo B D Passos, João R Sato, Karl J Friston, Cathy J Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3237491?pdf=render

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