Patent ID: 8838565

Claim:
A system comprising: an electronic database comprising a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records associated with a respective patient, each of the plurality of records comprising: one or more digital representations of a baseline functional brain scan image comprising a plurality of image planes for a respective patient, one or more digital representations of a concentration functional brain scan image comprising a plurality of image planes for a respective patient, a digital representation of a medical history of a respective patient, a digital representation of a neuropsychiatric assessment of a respective patient, a digital representation of demographic information of a respective patient, and a digital representation of a set of clinical symptoms of a respective patient; and one or more computer processors that: receive a first input from a database user, convert the first input into a first query, and execute the first query, whereby a first subset of the plurality of records is identified, the first subset of the plurality of records corresponding to a treatment set of patients, each of whose respective database records indicate a diagnosis of the chronic brain disease and that the respective patient in the treatment set received the treatment, receive a second input from a database user, convert the second input into a second query, and execute the second query, whereby a second subset of the plurality of database records is identified, the second subset of the plurality of database records corresponding to a set of patients that did not receive the treatment, each of whose respective database records indicate a diagnosis of the chronic brain disease, output a first statistical comparison of the first subset of the plurality of database records to a normative set of electronic records corresponding to patients that were not diagnosed with the chronic brain disease and did not receive the treatment, and output a second statistical comparison of the second subset of the plurality of database records to the normative set of electronic records, wherein information regarding the pathophysiological basis of the chronic brain disease or the effectiveness of the treatment for the chronic brain disease may be analyzed based on the first statistical comparison and second statistical comparison.