The future of functionally-related structural change assessment
The brain is continually changing its function and structure in response to changing environmental demands. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods can be used to repeatedly scan the same individuals over time and in this way have provided powerful tools for assessing such brain change. Functional...
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| description | The brain is continually changing its function and structure in response to changing environmental demands. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods can be used to repeatedly scan the same individuals over time and in this way have provided powerful tools for assessing such brain change. Functional MRI has provided important insights into changes that occur with learning or recovery but this review will focus on the complementary information that can be provided by structural MRI methods. Structural methods have been powerful in indicating when and where changes occur in both gray and white matter with learning and recovery. However, the measures that we derive from structural MRI are typically ambiguous in biological terms. An important future challenge is to develop methods that will allow us to determine precisely what has changed. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:07b6a449-6a18-453e-8e6a-df82de0243592022-03-26T09:09:00ZThe future of functionally-related structural change assessmentJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:07b6a449-6a18-453e-8e6a-df82de024359EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Johansen-Berg, HThe brain is continually changing its function and structure in response to changing environmental demands. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods can be used to repeatedly scan the same individuals over time and in this way have provided powerful tools for assessing such brain change. Functional MRI has provided important insights into changes that occur with learning or recovery but this review will focus on the complementary information that can be provided by structural MRI methods. Structural methods have been powerful in indicating when and where changes occur in both gray and white matter with learning and recovery. However, the measures that we derive from structural MRI are typically ambiguous in biological terms. An important future challenge is to develop methods that will allow us to determine precisely what has changed. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. |
| spellingShingle | Johansen-Berg, H The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
| title | The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
| title_full | The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
| title_fullStr | The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
| title_short | The future of functionally-related structural change assessment |
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