Looking Inside the Brain by Fagan, Teresa Lavender, Le Bihan, Denis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover LOOKING INSIDE THE BRAIN Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION ONE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

Broca’s Discoveries The Birth of Modern Neuroimaging The First Revolution: The X-Ray CT Scanner Nuclear Magnetism The Nuclei Enter into Resonance: From NMR to MRI The Anatomy of an MRI Scanner The Crystal Skull

TWO THE MAGNETIC BRAIN

The Computer at Work The Brain’s GPS When the Brain Is Constructed The Destiny of Neurons Language and Cerebral Plasticity Genes or Environment? The Phrenology of the Brain

THREE SEEING THE BRAIN THINK

I Think, Therefore Irrigate Seeing the Brain with Antimatter! The Glory of PET Positrons on the Verge of Being Replaced by Magnetism Electrons Come to the Aid of Protons The Wrong Track A Question of Oxygen From Rats to Cats...Then to Humans The Prowess of Functional MRI Don’t Think of Anything Proof through Statistics The Homunculus Seen in fMRI The Traps of fMRI The Missing “L”

FOUR THE MAGNETIC BRAIN IN ACTION

A Cat in the Brain Mental Reading “When Things Are Bad, Look at Yourself in a Mirror” Singing in the Brain What Side Do You Speak On? An Expensive Lie Detector The Intimate Brain Does Free Will Exist? At the Doors of Awareness

FIVE THE BRAIN PROBED THROUGH WATER MOLECULES

Einstein’s Visions NMR Sensitive to Diffusion From NMR to MRI: Diffusion . . . Confusion Diffusion and Cancer Mike’s Other Discovery White Matter Takes On Colors An Asynchronous Brain

SIX WATER: MOLECULE OF THE MIND?

The Firefighters Arrive a Bit Late Swelling Neurons Two Types of Water 104.5 Degrees: The Angle of Life Protons Play Leapfrog The Tribulations of Water in Cells A Dance of Spines Mechanical Neurons

SEVEN THE CRYSTAL BRAIN

Enter the Nanoparticles Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen MRI of the Extreme An Exceptional Instrument for an Exceptional Organ The Birth of NeuroSpin Safety Above All Conquering the Brain In Search of a Neural Code?

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