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Le Bihan, (Denis),. Looking inside the brain: the power of neuroimaging / Denis Le Bihan ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2015]. — 1 online resource (200 pages). — Text in English. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/818197.pdf>.

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Subject: Brain — Imaging.; Neuroimaging — methods.; Brain — physiology.; HEALTH & FITNESS — Diseases — General.; MEDICAL — Clinical Medicine.; MEDICAL — Diseases.; MEDICAL — Evidence-Based Medicine.; MEDICAL — Internal Medicine.; Brain — Imaging.; SCIENCE / Cognitive Science

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Table of Contents

  • 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?
  • References
  • Figure Credits
  • Index

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