Exploring brain functional anatomy with positron tomography.

Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : Wiley, 1991.

ix, 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

"Symposium on Exploring Brain Functional Anatomy with Positron Tomography, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12-14 March 1991"--P. v.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Editors: Derek J. Chadwick and Julie Whelan.

Basic aspects of functional brain metabolism / Robert C. Collins -- Rapid measurement of cerebral blood flow with positron emission tomography / Hidehiro Lida, Iwao Kanno, Shuichi Miura -- Optimization of signal in positron emission tomography scans : present and future developments / David W. Townsend -- The neurotransmitter basis of cognition : psychopharmacological activation studies using positron emission tomography / K.J. Friston, P.M. Grasby, C.D. Frith, C.J. Bench, R.J. Dolan, P.J. Cowen, P.F. Liddle, R.S.J. Frackowiak -- Relating structure to function in vivo with tomographic imaging / John C. Mazziotta, Daniel Valentino, Scott Grafton, Fred Bookstein, Charles Pelizzari, George Chen, Arthur W. Toga -- Positron emission tomography studies of the somatosensory system in man / P.E. Roland, R.J. Seitz -- Does inter-subject variability in cortical functional organization increase with neural 'distance' from the periphery? / Peter T. Fox, Jose V. Pardo -- A thought experiment with positron emission tomography / S. Zeki -- Selective attention modulates extrastriate visual regions in humans during visual feature discrimination and recognition / Maurizio Corbetta, Fran M. Miezin, Gordon L. Shulman, Steven E. Petersen -- Positron emission tomography studies of frontal lobe function: relevance to psychiatric disease / Chris Frith -- Memory mechanisms in the processing of words and word-like symbols / M.E. Raichle -- Language activation studies with positron emission tomography / Richard Wise, Uri Hadar, David Howard, Karalyn Patterson -- The functional anatomy of recovery from brain injury / R.S.J. Frackowiak, C. Weiller, F. Chollet -- Testing cerebral function : will it help the understanding or diagnosis of central nervous system disease? / J.C. Baron.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.