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FMRI

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FMRI
abbreviation for
(Medicine / Pathology) functional magnetic resonance imaging: a technique that directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity
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Noun1.fMRI - a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain
functional magnetic resonance imaging
magnetic resonance imaging, MRI - the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
BOLD FMRI - functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation


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Modulation of task-related neural activity in task-switching: an fMRI study.
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For example, Elise Temple reported in a 2003 study for the National Academy of Sciences that 8- to 12-year-old dyslexics not only improved selected language abilities after exposure to a program called Fast ForWord, but also that fMRI brain scans of the related language areas reflected this improvement.
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But activity did show up in all those areas by the third fMRI scan.
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