By Philip Seeman, Bertha Madras
Brain imaging expertise continues to be on the vanguard of advances in either our knowing of the mind and our skill to diagnose and deal with mind sickness and problems. Imaging of the Human mind in well-being and Disease examines the localization of neurotransmitter receptors within the apprehensive process of ordinary, fit people and compares that with people that suffer from quite a few neurologic illnesses.
Opening chapters introduce the fundamental technology of imaging neurotransmitters, together with sigma, acetylcholine, opioid, and dopamine receptors. Imaging the fit and diseased mind contains mind imaging of anger, ache, autism, the discharge of dopamine, the influence of cannabinoids, and Alzheimer's ailment.
This e-book is a precious better half to a variety of students, scholars, and researchers in neuroscience, scientific neurology, and psychiatry, and offers an in depth creation to the appliance of complicated imaging to the therapy of mind problems and disease.
- A concentrated advent to imaging fit and diseased brains
- Focuses at the basic neurotransmitter release
- Includes sigma, acetylcholine, opioid, and dopamine receptors
- Presents the imaging of fit and diseased brains through anger, discomfort, autism, and Alzheimer's disease
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