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Write a customer review. Showing of 2 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The great strength of this volume is that it covers essentially every clinical area that now involves fMRI. Of course, some areas, such as fMRI applications in Epilepsy are well-developed, and will be common clinical procedures in the near future.
Others, such as using fMRI for hearing disorders, are still the subject of early studies and a standard clinical procedure has not yet been developed. If you need a well-written review of the cutting edge in numerous clinical areas,this is your book. The book also has some great images of clinical cases that I plan to scan and use in my courses. But it is a lot to spend on a book which doesn't cover anything new except for that which is experimental and quite a ways away before reaching your local theatres. I suggest you let the rads you work for buy it for everyone, and you go have a very nice night on the town instead.
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Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Explore the Home Gift Guide. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Many studies build on the tasks that have been developed over many years in neuropsychological testing of subjects for the identification of different traits or pathologies.
Consider the classic Stroop test, in which subjects are required to name the color of various words printed in a colored font.
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In this test, subjects are instructed explicitly to suppress the automatic response of reading the words, and instead to identify only the color of the font. The words displayed may also be the names of the colors of the fonts used, with the word printed sometimes in the congruent color e. Given the propensity to read the word despite the instruction to name only the color of the font, there is a well-documented attentional conflict when the word and the color are incongruent, leading in behavioral studies to a longer reaction time in arriving at the correct color identification.
This is the Stroop effect, and it involves several elements of attention and task monitoring as well as correction of automatic responses. In an event-related Stroop test performed in the magnet, a series of congruent word-color pairs may be presented, and incongruent words can then be interspersed at random. At the appearance of each incongruent word, a set of brain areas begins to activate.
Stroop tests are one of many such psychological tests that may be used to discriminate various subject groups. In fMRI, the patterns of activation revealed by the Stroop test are different, for example, for subjects with depression and disorders such as pathological gambling, and these differences may be quantified. The average time course of the responses of two slices of the brain in the event-related Stroop task. Each image was acquired 1.
Principles and practice of functional MRI of the human brain
Peak activities are apparent in the BOLD response 5—7 seconds after the event. A widespread pattern of activity is seen in both frontal and posterior regions, triggered by the Stroop effect. One aim of such tests may be to more accurately identify specific differences and deficits, as well as potentially to monitor the effects of treatments or interventions. An example is the use of fMRI to demarcate subgroups of subjects broadly diagnosed with schizophrenia based on characteristic deficits in specific cognitive domains. For example, in fMRI studies, some subjects demonstrate a failure to activate specific frontal regions during a verbal working memory task In this test they are presented with sequences of words to rehearse and to remember for several seconds prior to a simple test of word order.
Principles and practice of functional MRI of the human brain
However, in some subjects the pattern of activation appears to normalize following several weeks of appropriate therapy in which the underlying skills required for this task are emphasized Similar documentation of the effects of therapy or learning have been achieved by several groups in different domains, so that the ability of fMRI to demonstrate the apparent plasticity of the brain is clear.
The effects of pharmacologic interventions on cognitive functions may also be revealed via patterns of activation within the brain. For example, acute effects of intravenous administration of ketamine on the circuits activated during P stimuli have been quantified. Longer-term changes have also been shown; for example, fMRI studies of language have demonstrated cognitive effects produced by hormone replacement treatments with estrogen Sustained BOLD effects are seen in normal subjects during the period 6—18 seconds after a series of words is encoded, but patients with schizophrenia fail to maintain this activity in inferior frontal gyrus IFG , as shown in the lower time course.
Among the most important applications of fMRI is the study of neurodevelopment and disorders associated with children, where the safety and noninvasive nature of MRI are paramount. For example, fMRI has been used to demonstrate the failure of autistic individuals to recruit the cortical substrate which includes the fusiform gyrus used for face processing by normal subjects, providing an anatomic basis for interpreting the lack of affect that such subjects demonstrate when confronted with human faces In developmental dyslexia, fMRI has been used to identify deficits in specific posterior circuits involving the angular gyrus that account for reading disability 15 , and activations within these circuits have been shown to correlate well with reading skill 16 and to respond to educational interventions that focus on specific language and reading skills.
An important area of further development is the application of advanced data analysis techniques and modeling in order to interpret fMRI results. For mapping of single critical functions e. However, greater insights into the neural basis of behavior may be obtained by examination of the manner in which regional activities vary with behavioral or other performance or physiological measures, or across tasks, or among subjects within a group, and between groups. To quantify these covariations, more advanced mathematical techniques have been developed, many of which resemble the multivariate statistical methods employed to derive relationships among variables in nonimaging data By such approaches, the relationship of fMRI activity to specific behavioral measures, and the connectivity between different brain regions, may be derived.
Such methods have proven especially helpful in extracting new information on brain systems involved in complex responses from simple maps of activation acquired during different conditions. The use of fast imaging reduces the spatial resolution to a few millimeters, somewhat worse than conventional MRI.
The temporal resolution is poor and is limited by the nature of the hemodynamic response. Furthermore, the reliability is reduced when there are significant subject motions or physiologically related variations.
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The origins and influence of various sources of such variance are not yet completely understood. For example, the importance of variations in the blood levels of everyday substances such as caffeine, nicotine, and glucose , or of hormones such as estrogen , all of which are likely to affect the BOLD signal, is not well documented.
Aging and impaired cerebrovascular supply are also likely to affect the magnitude of the BOLD response. The BOLD effect is an indirect measure of neural activity, and there are couplings at different stages — for example, between electrical activity and metabolic flux, and between neurotransmitter release and energy supply — that are not well understood. Nonetheless, fMRI signals are not simply an epiphenomenon of neural activity, and they clearly are sensitive to subtle changes in the state of the brain, as well as to the effects of learning, of expertise, and of various treatments.
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