Positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which measures localized function activity in the brain. This volume examines the application of PET to the mapping of human brain function and includes chapters on the somatosensory, motor and visual systems.

Chapters on the use of PET to study frontal lobe function in relation to psychiatric disease, and brain injury and recovery from it, illustrate the application of this imaging method to the clinical field. The fully edited discussions between neurologists, physiologists, neuroanatomists, psychiatrists, physicists, statisticians and other experts serve to highlight problems in the current protocols and to identify future directions in the exploitation of positron tomography both in basic neuroscience research and in medicine. Other Ciba Foundation Symposia: No. 132 Motor areas of the cerebral cortex Chairman: R. Porter 1987 ISBN 0 471 91098 8 No. 138 Plasticity of the neuromuscular system Chairman: A. J. Buller 1988 ISBN 0 471 91902 0 No. 152 The biology of nicotine dependence Chairman: L. L. Iversen 1990 ISBN 0 471 92688 4

Partial table of contents:
Basic Aspects of Functional Brain Metabolism (R. Collins).
Rapid Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow with Positron Emission Tomography (H. Iida, et al.).
Optimization of Signal in Positron Emission Tomography Scans: Present and Future Developments (D. Townsend).
Positron Emission Tomography Studies of the Somatosensory System in Man (P. Roland &
R. Seitz).
A Thought Experiment with Positron Emission Tomography (S. Zeki).
Memory Mechanisms in the Processing of Words and Word-Like Symbols (M. Raichle).
Language Activation Studies with Positron Emission Tomography (R. Wise, et al.).
The Functional Anatomy of Recovery from Brain Injury (R. Frackowiak, et al.).
Indexes.