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This volume in the best-selling "Case Review" series uses hundreds of case studies to challenge your knowledge of a full range of topics in brain imaging.
Presented in exam format, each case firstly provides the clinical history and radiological images for the reader to make a diagnosis. The review then provides the correct diagnosis and additional commentary on the case.
The ability to image brain processes non-invasively has created a flood of experiments that fall into two categories—aiming to localize brain performance of abstractions like love, memory or intention—or to identify neuronal activities ...
This book is designed to provide a foundation of information necessary to those wishing to integrate brain imaging into their practice or who seek more training.
Brain Imaging: What It Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness, in describing the experiments using imaging methods, traces how assumptions about the nature of brain function made in planning scientific experiments are the consequences ...
Another section focuses on the use of magnetic resonance imaging. The book can provide useful information to radiologists, doctors, physical therapists, students, and researchers.
"This volume in the "Case Review" series uses hundreds of case studies to challenge your knowledge of a full range of topics in brain imaging.
Praise for this series: Allow[s] a quick visual review of common diagnoses in a volume that easily fits into one's lab coat.
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
... studies of the working human brain. Rev Mod Phys. 1993;65(2):413–495. 17. Wilson TW. Noninvasive neurophysiological imaging with magnetoencephalography. In: Xiong H, Gendelman HE, eds. Current Laboratory Methods in Neuroscience Research ...