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In Vivo Investigations of Signal-Transduction Systems in Affective Disorders by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

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Signal Transduction in Affective Disorders

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In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a noninvasive tool that can detect various molecules at around millimolar concentrations in living human organs. The nuclei of many species of atoms, such as 1H, 7Li, and 31P, have magnetic properties and can be used for in vivo MRS. Because the principles of MRS are complicated and not easily summarized, only a brief introduction is given here. For details, see other review articles (Nasrallah and Pettegrew 1995; Kato et al. in press).

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Tadafumi Kato

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, S-1, W-16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060, Japan

    Hiroki Ozawa M.D., Ph.D. (Instructor) & Naohiko Takahata M.D., Ph.D. (Professor) (Instructor) &  (Professor)

  2. Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, S-1, W-16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060, Japan

    Toshikazu Saito M.D., Ph. D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Kato, T. (1998). In Vivo Investigations of Signal-Transduction Systems in Affective Disorders by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. In: Ozawa, H., Saito, T., Takahata, N. (eds) Signal Transduction in Affective Disorders. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68479-4_10

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