Brain Imaging in Behavioral Neuroscience

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Carter, Cameron S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dalley, Jeffrey W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 11
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Biomedicine.; Imaging / Radiology.; Nuclear Medicine.

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 allow...

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• From the contents
• Preface
• Food and drug reward: overlapping circuits in human obesity and addiction
• Nonhuman Primate Models of Addiction and PET Imaging: Dopamine System Dysregulation
• Neural and behavioral endophenotypes in ADHD
• Experimental protocols for behavioral imaging: Seeing animal models of drug abuse in a new light
• Molecular Imaging and the Neuropathologies of Parkinson’s disease
• Imaging of Seasonal Affective Disorder and Seasonality effects on serotonin and dopamine function in the Human Brain
• Magnetic resonance spectroscopic methods for the assessment of metabolic functions in the diseased brain
• MR Spectroscopic Studies of the Brain in Psychiatric Disorders
• fMRI As A Measure of Cognition Related Brain Circuitry In Schizophrenia
• MRI studies in Late-Life Mood Disorders
• The role of diffusion tensor imaging in the study of cognitive aging
• Structural, functional and spectroscopic MRI studies of Methamphetamine addiction
• Pharmacological MRI Approaches to Understanding Mechanisms of Drug Action.