Research topics on brain mapping.

9781604560015

Research topics on brain mapping.

Ed. by Yuanzhu Liang.

Nova Science Publishers

2008

246 pages

$129.00

Hardcover

RC386

Forty-five international academics and researchers contribute 11 chapters on brain mapping, a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of biological quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the human or non-human brain resulting in maps. As with previous books from this publisher, the editor's credentials are not stated, nor is the target audience. The criteria used for inclusion of the selections is not stated. The preface consists primarily of abstracts reproduced from the individual chapters, rather than a summarization of or commentary on the book's contents. A sampling of topics: applications of diffusion imaging to the human memory system, cerebral neuroimaging and neurophysiological brain mapping of the effects of cannabis abuse, advances in neurosurgical applications of functional magnetic resonance imaging, and optical imaging of brainstem autonomic circuits using voltage-sensitive dyes.

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