Inferring causality in brain images: A perturbation approach

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1457, 2005, Pages 1109-1114

  Paus, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Neural connectivity; Positron emission tomography; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 25444449595     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1652     Document Type: Review

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