Functional magnetic resonance imaging articles within Nature

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  • Article |

    Molecular and functional magnetic resonance imaging in the rat reveals distinct neuromodulatory effects of striatal dopamine that extend beyond peak release sites and activate remote neural populations necessary for performing motivated actions.

    • Nan Li
    •  & Alan Jasanoff

  • News Feature |

    Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all.

    • Kerri Smith

  • News Feature |

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging is growing from showy adolescence into a workhorse of brain imaging.

    • Kerri Smith

  • Brief Communications Arising |

    • Jin Hyung Lee
    • , Remy Durand
    •  & Karl Deisseroth

  • Letter |

    Blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals are the basis for much of the work on which regions of the human brain are active during particular tasks or behaviours, but there is controversy over their source and interpretation. Here a combination of optogenetics and BOLD signal monitoring shows that specific excitatory neurons within a mixed population are sufficient to produce positive BOLD signals, and could be used to map connections.

    • Jin Hyung Lee
    • , Remy Durand
    •  & Karl Deisseroth

  • News & Views |

    Analysis of a selected class of neuron in the brains of live animals using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) opens the door to mapping genetically specified neural circuits.

    • David A. Leopold

  • News Feature |

    Last year, functional magnetic resonance imaging made its debut in court. Virginia Hughes asks whether the technique is ready to weigh in on the fate of murderers.

    • Virginia Hughes

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