Avram J. Holmes

2 weeks ago | thetransmitter.org | Avram J. Holmes |Andrew Jahn |Emily Finn |Austin Coley

Human thought and behavior emerge through complex and reciprocal interactions that link microscale molecular and cellular processes with macroscale functional patterns. Functional MRI (fMRI), one of the most common methods for studying the human brain, detects these latter patterns through the “blood oxygen level dependent,” or BOLD, signal, a composite measure of both neural and vascular signals that reflects an indirect measure of brain activity.