Neuroimaging

Eating Disorders and the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 56-105

  Fuglset, Tone Seim ^a   Frampton, Ian ^a,b  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computerised tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and brain structure; CT research, abnormal findings ventricles and sulci of patients, with eating disorders; CT scanning technologies measurable changes in brain structure, in low weight eating disorders; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and SPECT in measuring brain's function; MRI, advantages over earlier neuroimaging techniques; MRI, medical imaging technique visualising internal structures of body, no radiation used; Neuroimaging neuroscientists, and techniques for obtaining brain images; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) visualisation of brain function blood flow rate measurement; Structural imaging studies, using CT 'brain shrinkage' or cerebral atrophy, patients with AN; Ventricular and sulcal dilatation and interhemispheric fissure enlargement in AN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865634492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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