Overview
- An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of brain imaging studies in health and disease
- Contributions from world leading authorities on magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography
- Strong focus on recent conceptual and methodological advances in neuroimaging research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences (CTBN, volume 11)
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This volume highlights the remarkable new developments in brain imaging, including those that apply magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), that allow us to non invasively study the living human brain in health and in disease. These technological advances have allowed us to obtain new and powerful insights into the structure and function of the healthy brain as it develops across the life cycle, as well as the molecular make up of brain systems and circuits as they develop and change with age. New brain imaging technologies have also given us new insights into the causes of many common brain disorders, including ADHD, schizophrenia, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, which collectively affect a large segment of the population. These new insights have major implications for understanding and treating these brain disorders, and are providing clinicians with the first ever set of biomarkers that can be used to guide diagnosis and monitor treatment effects. The advances in brain imaging over the last 20 years, summarized in this volume, represent a major advance in modern biomedical sciences.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain Imaging in Behavioral Neuroscience
Editors: Cameron S. Carter, Jeffrey W. Dalley
Series Title: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28711-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28710-7Published: 24 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43209-5Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28711-4Published: 04 November 2011
Series ISSN: 1866-3370
Series E-ISSN: 1866-3389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 394
Topics: Neurosciences, Imaging / Radiology, Nuclear Medicine