Increase in glutamate/glutamine concentration in the medial prefrontal cortex during mental imagery: A combined functional mrs and fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3204-3212

  Huang, Zirui ^a   Yue, Qiang ^c   Wiebking, Christine ^d   Duncan, Niall W ^a,e,f,g   Zhang, Jianfeng ^e   Wagner, Nils Frederic ^a   Wolff, Annemarie ^a   Northoff, Georg ^a,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Hap)   (Canada)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

functional magnetic resonance imaging; glutamate; glutamine; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; medial prefrontal cortex; mental imagery

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ATHLETE; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; IMAGINATION; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SWIMMING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930749884     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22841     Document Type: Article

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