CNS & plasticity: sleep, juggling and pain

In neuroscience, next to „functional imaging„ some innovative new imaging techniques based on structural attributes have begun to be established and their potential recognized. Using the high spatial resolution of three-dimensional structural MRI-datasets, transformed into a common stereotactic space, morphometric techniques such as voxel-based (VBM) and deformation based analysis (VBM) are designed to seek significant regional differences by applying voxel-wise statistics in the context of Gaussian random fields. VBM is fully automated, unbiased, and has been cross-validated with region-of-interest measurements…