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Handbook of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow unites the technical, clinical, and methodological developments in regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF) as well as the research applications of rCBF from a variety of disciplines. Handbook of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow provides a comprehensive, detailed overview of the most common modern technique for quantitative measurement of regional cerebral blood flow, responding to such changes as the proliferation and standardization of the rCBF instruments over the last decade and the growing impact of rCBF on diverse medical disciplines.
Das vorliegende Buch enth{lt die Beitr{ge eines internatio- nalen Symposiumszum Thema "Stimulierte Hirndurchblutung". Vorgestellt werden zun{chst neue Erkenntnisse zur Regulation der Hinrdurchblutung. Im 2. Abschnitt kommen verschiedene Methoden zur Messung der Hirndurchblutung zur Sprache, die sowohl unter experimentellen als auch unter klinischen Be- dingungengetestet wurden. Es folgt ein Abschnitt, der ver- schiedene M|glichkeiten zur Stimulation der Hirndurchblutung aufzeigt. Im letzten Abschnitt wird aufdie Bedeutung der stimulierten Hirndurchblutungsmessung zur Bestimmung der ce- rebrovascul{ren Reservekapazit{ten hingewiesen. Dieser Para- meter hat nach den vorliegenden Untersuchungen klinisch- praktische Bedeutung, beispielsweise f}r die Indikations- stellung bei cerebrovascul{ren Eingriffen zur Isch{mie-Pro- phylaxe.
Increasingly, researchers in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience use blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to investigate brain activity in children. However, the BOLD signal is dependent on changes in several underlying physiological processes, namely cerebral blood flow (CBF). Few studies have been conducted that systematically examine age-related changes in CBF and the BOLD signal in the developing brain. Previous research using radionucleotide tracing techniques with pediatric patient populations have found that children have increased levels of resting CBF relative to adults. These findings raise the question of whether or not age-based differences in baseline CBF lead to age-related differences in the BOLD signal. If so, observed differences in the BOLD response between children and adults might be mistakenly attributed to developmental differences in cognitive processes when they may actually originate from differences in CBF. More recently, an MRI technique called arterial spin labeling (ASL) has been developed, which allows researchers to noninvasively assess CBF during both rest and functional tasks in typical children. The present study used ASL to concurrently assess CBF and BOLD signal change in auditory cortex in two groups of healthy, non-anesthetized children (8 year olds and 12 year olds) and adults. Participants underwent an FMRI scan while listening to instrumental music to elicit activation in the auditory cortex. Cardiac and respiratory effort were recorded throughout. The study focused on the hemodynamics in primary auditory cortex in an anatomically defined region of interest (ROI) analysis. Within and between runs, images were coregistered, corrected for cardiac and respiratory contributions to the signal, and then averaged. Voxels within the ROI that correlated significantly with the hemodynamic reference waveform contributed to four indices for each subject: resting CBF, absolute change in CBF, and percent of CBF and BOLD signal change between rest and auditory stimulation. One-way analysis of variance was used for age group comparisons of these indices. Results show that 8-year-old and 12-year-old children had significantly higher resting CBF than adults, confirming findings from previous studies utilizing invasive methods. The absolute difference in CBF between rest and listening to music was greater in children as well. No significant differences were observed in CBF indices between the two groups of children. Despite age-related changes in resting and absolute difference in CBF, the percent of change between rest and auditory stimulation in CBF and the BOLD signal were not significantly different between groups. The current study presents evidence that increased resting and activity-driven CBF does not coincide with the amount of BOLD signal change between rest and activity. These results suggest that another process, namely oxygen metabolism, is also likely to be upregulated in the young brain. Future examination of oxygen metabolism in the auditory cortex, in addition to investigations of CBF and the BOLD signal in other areas of the brain, will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of developmental changes in cerebral hemodynamics. Results from the current study will enable neurodevelopmental researchers to better interpret developmental changes in the BOLD signal.
This book is part of an ongoing history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. We believe the recent technological revolutions in anatomy and physiology make the present moment especially propitious for this effort. In planning this book we had the choices of producing an edited volume with invited chapter authors or of writing the book ourselves. Edited volumes offer the opportunity for expression of expertise in each chapter but, we felt, would not allow the development of our ideas on the potential and actual unity of the field and would not allow the expression of coherence that can be obtained only with one or two voices, but which may be quite difficult with a chorus assembled and performing together for the first time. (Unlike musical works, there is very little precedent for rehearsals and repeated performances for authors of edited volumes or even for the existence of conductors able to induce a single rhythm and vision of the composition. ) We thus decided on a monograph. The primary goal was to communicate the current realities and the future possibilities of unifying basic studies on anatomy and cellular physiology with investigations of the behavioral and physi ological events of waking and sleep. In keeping with this goal we cross-reference the basic cellular physiology in the latter chapters, and, in the last chapter, we take up possible links to relevant clinical phenomenology.
There has been substantial progress in understanding the contributions of the auditory forebrain to hearing, sound localization, communication, emotive behavior, and cognition. The Auditory Cortex covers the latest knowledge about the auditory forebrain, including the auditory cortex as well as the medial geniculate body in the thalamus. This book will cover all important aspects of the auditory forebrain organization and function, integrating the auditory thalamus and cortex into a smooth, coherent whole. Volume One covers basic auditory neuroscience. It complements The Auditory Cortex, Volume 2: Integrative Neuroscience, which takes a more applied/clinical perspective.