Exploring Brain Functional Anatomy with Positron Tomography (eBook)

Derek J. Chadwick, Julie Whelan (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
298 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-51419-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Details the application of positron emission tomography (PET) to the mapping of human cerebral cortical function. Coverage includes all aspects of PET technology. Includes chapters on somatosensory, motor and visual systems, and higher-order processes such as attention, memory, learning, intention and language. The clinical usefulness of PET is discussed in relation to psychiatric illness and to functional recovery after brain injury.

Derek J. Chadwick and Julie Whelan are editors for Exploring Brain Functional Anatomy with Positron Tomography and other scientific titles.

Inhalt

EXPLORING BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY WITH POSITRON TOMOGRAPHY 1
Contents 7
Introduction 13
Basic aspects of functional brain metabolism 18
Rapid measurement of cerebral blood flow with positron emission tomography 35
General discussion 55
Oxidative metabolism in brain 63
Optimization of signal in positron emission tomography scans: present and future developments 69
The neurotransmitter basis of cognition: psychopharmacological activation studies 88
Relating structure to function in vivo with tomographic imaging 107
Positron emission tomography studies of the somatosensory system in man 129
Does inter-su bject variability in cortical functional organization increase with neural ‘distance’ from the periphery? 143
A thought experiment with positron emission tomography 163
Selective attention modulates extrastriate visual regions in humans during visual feature discrimination and recognition 183
Positron emission tomography studies of frontal lobe function: relevance to psychiatric disease 203
Memory mechanisms in the processing of words and word-li ke symbols 220
Language activation studies with positron emission tomography 240
The functional anatomy of recovery from brain injury 259
Testing cerebral function: will it help the understanding or diagnosis of central nervous system disease? 276
Final general discussion 291
Summing-up 301
Index of contributors 304
Subject index 306

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Novartis Foundation Symposium
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Computertomographie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Schlagworte: Anatomie u. Physiologie • Anatomy & Physiology • Biowissenschaften • Life Sciences • Neuroscience • Neurowissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-470-51419-1 / 0470514191
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51419-1 / 9780470514191