"Who would lead him to become obsessed with unraveling the link between certain brain alterations and that loss of contact with reality, to design new ways to predict the success of schizophrenia treatment, and to revolutionize its approach. It was a patient with psychosis who would lead him to become the renowned neuroscientist he is today. I was doing a psychiatric internship, and I was fascinated."
"Fueled by the desire to better understand the complex relationship between the psyche and the brain, the young man would seize a unique opportunity. At the time, the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery had the first high-field MRI machine in Mexico City. I arrived as a master's student in the Neurology department, and they gave us the chance to use the equipment. And that's where I sayed. It was a coincidence of life, he recalls."
Camilo de la Fuente's career was shaped by a patient with psychosis who motivated him to explore brain alterations linked to loss of contact with reality. A psychiatric internship provoked philosophical questions about why different patients experience different hallucinations. De la Fuente seized an opportunity to study brain chemistry using high-field MRI at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery while a master's student. He arrived in Mexico as a child in 1973 after his family fled Chile following the military coup that ended his father's scientific career. De la Fuente inherited a scientific vocation and in 2000 began applying spectroscopy techniques to detect neurochemical alterations in psychosis that were clinically undetectable.
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