Brain, Vol. 123, No. 4, 846-847,
April 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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FUNDAMENTALS OF FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING.
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Neurology Department, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
The techniques of functional imaging are so complex that it may be tempting to glance at the pictures and assume that the method of production has unimpeachable scientific validity. The use of such images has extended far beyond the neuroscience community, to publications by pressure groups (often anxious to prove that their particular bias has scientific validity), advertisements in medical magazines (to persuade the prescriber of the merits of this or that particular drug) and to that bastion
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