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People with schizophrenia have some fairly consistent and obvious difference in their fMRI data from healthy controls. It is not a great diagnostic tool though.

In our particular case we are looking at some fairly technical and fairly specific aspects of the fMRI signal. With schizophrenics they appear to not show several classic properties of the ideal fMRI signal. This aspect of the signal relates to metabolic rate and something called "vasocompliance" which is the ability of the microvasculature to expand and contract with changes in blood flow.

Again its more a research tool than a diagnostic tool.