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The physiological and biochemical bases of functional brain imaging
1National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Building 49, Room 1B80, 49 Convent Drive MSC 4415, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA, louissokoloff@mail.nih.gov.
Cognitive Neurodynamics
|November 13, 2008
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Functional brain imaging is based on the display of computer-derived images of changes in physiological and/or biochemical functions altered by activation or depression of local functional activities in the brain. This article reviews the physiological and biochemical mechanisms involved.
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