Magnetic Resonance Imaging , brain function study

Callicott JH, Ramsey NF, Tallent K, Bertolino A, Knable MB, et al. 1998. Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain mapping in psychiatry Methodological issues illustrated in a study of working memory in schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology 18 186-196. 

Brain. - An historical review of developments in the field of cerebral blood flow and metabolism has been produced with 34 references. The use of NMR and magnetic resonance imaging in the study of function and dysfunction in the neonatal brain has been reviewed with 40 references. The potential of and NMR in the assessment of cerebral metabolism in experimental models and human hydrocephalus has been reviewed with 110 references.A review of the applications of C-labelling to studies of the human brain has been produced with 90 references. The detection of choline-containing phospholipids in acute and chronic neurodegeneration has been reviewed with 231 references.The role of and NMR in the study of schizophrenia has been reviewed in two parts. A review of the use of NMR in the study of phenylketonuria has been produced with 26 references and comments on the text have also been published. 

A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of the brain can actually determine between the regular and the occasional coffee drinker. Caffeine consistently slows blood flow by 25% to the gray matter of the brain, which contains the cells, and by 20% to the white matter, which contains the connecting nerve fibers. Heavy users of caffeine show more blood flow in the gray matter in the front of the brain when they had abstained for 30 hours, compared to those who infrequently ingest caffeine. With fMRI, the doctor can look inside the brain and observe the phenomenon of caffeine withdrawal in action. 

Dijkhuizen RM, Singhal AB, Mandeville JB, Wu O, Halpern EF, Finklestein SP, Rosen BR, Lo EH (2003) Correlation between brain reorganization, ischemic damage, and neurologic status after transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J Neurosci 23 510-517... 

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