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ISBN 10: 0691176078

ISBN 13: 9780691176079

Author: Denis Le Bihan

The remarkable story of how today’s brain scanning techniques were developed, told by one of the field’s pioneers 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.

Looking Inside the Brain The Power of Neuroimaging 1st Table of contents:

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 I 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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