Looking Inside the Brain : The Power of Neuroimaging / Denis Le Bihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Bihan, Denis, author.

Contributor:

Fagan, Teresa Lavender.

Standardized Title:

Cerveau de cristal. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Physiology.

Brain.

Neuroimaging--methods.

Neuroimaging.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These groundbreaking advances have opened infinite fields of investigation-into such areas as musical perception, brain development in utero, and faulty brain connections leading to psychiatric disorders-and have raised unprecedented ethical issues. In Looking Inside the Brain, one of the leading pioneers of the field, Denis Le Bihan, offers an engaging account of the sophisticated interdisciplinary research in physics, neuroscience, and medicine that have led to the remarkable neuroimaging methods that give us a detailed look into the human brain.Introducing neurological anatomy and physiology, Le Bihan walks readers through the historical evolution of imaging technology-from the x-ray and CT scan to the PET scan and MRI-and he explains how neuroimaging uncovers afflictions like stroke or cancer and the workings of higher-order brain activities, such as language skills. Le Bihan also takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey through NeuroSpin, his state-of-the-art neuroimaging laboratory, and goes over the cutting-edge scanning devices currently being developed. Considering what we see when we look at brain images, Le Bihan weighs what might be revealed about our thoughts and unconscious, and discusses how far this technology might go in the future.Beautifully illustrated in color, Looking Inside the Brain presents the trailblazing story of the scanning techniques that provide keys to previously unimagined knowledge of our brains and our selves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. Elementary Particles

Two. The Magnetic Brain

Three. Seeing the Brain Think

Four. The Magnetic Brain in Action

Five. The Brain Probed Through Water Molecules

Six. Water: Molecule of the Mind?

Seven. The Crystal Brain

References

Figure Credits

Index

Notes:

Originally published in France under the title Le Cerveau de cristal. Ce que nous revele la neuro-imagerie, copyright (c) Odile Jacob, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691176079

0691176078

9781400852161

1400852161

OCLC:

894790088