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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 863-872Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1246
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has rapidly emerged as a powerful tool for studying brain function, despite the fact that it measures neuronal activity indirectly, through the blood-oxygen-level-dependent ( BOLD) signal. The BOLD signal depends on neurovascular coupling the processes by which neural activity influences the haemodynamic properties of the surrounding vasculature. Although the exact mechanisms that underlie neurovascular coupling are not completely understood, there is empirical evidence that these mechanisms might be altered in normal ageing and disease. So, interpretation of BOLD fMRI studies of individuals with different ages or pathology might be more challenging than is commonly acknowledged.
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