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Imaging Dopamine
Author(s): Paul Cumming (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 2 April 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521790026
- ISBN-13: 9780521790024
Book Description
Since its discovery 50 years ago, brain dopamine has been implicated in the control of movement and cognition, and is concerned with diverse brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and drug addiction. This book is an illustrated biography of the dopamine molecule, from its synthesis in the brain to its signalling mechanisms and ultimately to its metabolic breakdown. Using colour illustrations of positron emission tomography (PET) scans, each chapter presents a specific stage in the biochemical pathway for dopamine. Writing for researchers and graduate students, Paul Cumming presents a compilation of all that has been learned about dopamine through molecular imaging, a technology which allows the measurement of formerly invisible processes in the living brain. He reviews current technical controversies in the interpretation of dopamine imaging, and presents key results illuminating brain dopamine in illness and health.
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Book Description
An illustrated biography of the dopamine molecule, with each chapter presenting a specific stage in the biochemical pathway for dopamine.
About the Author
Paul Cumming is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Ludwig-Maximillian University in Germany. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Synapse, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, and NeuroImage.
