Applications of fMRI in translational medicine and clinical practice

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 732-744

  Matthews, Paul M ^a,b   Honey, Garry D ^c   Bullmore, Edward T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NICOTINE;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENT CONTRAST IMAGING; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMT GENE; DISC1 GENE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GRM3 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROSURGERY; OXIMETRY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 33747604618     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1929     Document Type: Review

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