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MRI in small brains displaying extensive plasticity.
Van der Linden, A.; Van Meir, V.; Boumans, T. et al.
2009In Trends in Neurosciences
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Abstract :
[en] Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (ME-MRI), blood oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can now be applied to animal species as small as mice or songbirds. These techniques confirmed previous findings but are also beginning to reveal new phenomena that were difficult or impossible to study previously. These imaging techniques will lead to major technical and conceptual advances in systems neurosciences. We illustrate these new developments with studies of the song control and auditory systems in songbirds, a spatially organized neuronal circuitry that mediates the acquisition, production and perception of complex learned vocalizations. This neural system is an outstanding model for studying vocal learning, brain steroid hormone action, brain plasticity and lateralization of brain function.
Disciplines :
Zoology
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Van der Linden, A.
Van Meir, V.
Boumans, T.
Poirier, C.
Balthazart, Jacques  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biologie de la différenciation sexuelle du cerveau
Language :
English
Title :
MRI in small brains displaying extensive plasticity.
Publication date :
2009
Journal title :
Trends in Neurosciences
ISSN :
0166-2236
Publisher :
Elsevier Science, Barking, United Kingdom
Peer reviewed :
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