Brain Imaging in Substance Abuse
Subtitle: Research, Clinical, and Forensic Applications (Forensic Science and Medicine)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: January 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780896037700
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Medical imaging; Psychopathology - Addiction; Imaging; Toxicology; Alcohol And Health; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri); Medical / Nursing; Neurology - General; Medical; Diagnostic Imaging; Medical / Forensic Medicine; Brain; Substance abuse; Diagnosis; Effect of drugs on
First sentence: Scientific interest in the ability of organisms to generate electrical activity dates back to the late eighteenth century when an Italian physiologist, Luigi Galvani, discovered that frogs' leg muscles were excitable tissues.