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Special Issues in fMRI Involving Children

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Anatomo-functional brain imaging methods have considerably developed recently, leading to new advances in noninvasive exploration of children with various neurological disorders. In addition, fMRI is a unique method to study healthy children because it does not require any exogenous tracer and has no reported side effects. It thus gives us access to normative data of functional brain development and to the assessment of networks reorganization following focal anatomical or functional abnormality, which is particularly relevant in the child’s immature and plastic brain.

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Hertz-Pannier, L., Noulhiane, M. (2013). Special Issues in fMRI Involving Children. In: Ulmer, S., Jansen, O. (eds) fMRI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34342-1_16

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