Abstract: Methods for identifying networks correlating with placebo effects, progression of neurological disease symptoms, progression of pre-phenoconversion states of neurological diseases, and efficacious/non-efficacious candidate treatments for neurological diseases are provided.

Abstract: A marker for use in screening patients for nervous system dysfunction and a method of producing the marker. The marker is a digital profile of a brain having a particular nervous system dysfunction that is used for screening patients for that nervous system dysfunction. The digital profile consists of a grid of values that are a numerical representation of graphical images of functional activity in the brain having that nervous systems dysfunction. The marker is produced by selecting a nervous system dysfunction and by creating a digital profile of predetermined functional activity at a plurality of sets of predetermined coordinates of a given brain geometry. The marker can also be used to screen patients for any specific functional brain activity not limited to nervous system dysfunctions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for screening patients for nervous system dysfunction including neurological capacity and dysfunction. A patient profile of actual functional activity of a brain of a patient is produced and compared with at least one marker. The marker is a profile of predetermined functional activity at a plurality of sets of predetermined coordinates of a given brain geometry.