Functional magnetic resonance imaging: emerging clinical applications

Heather A Wishart1, Andrew J Saykin, Thomas W McAllister

  • 1Brain Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School/DHMC, Hanover, NH 03756, USA. Heather.A.Wishart@dartmouth.edu

Current Psychiatry Reports
|September 17, 2002
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