PLENARY LECTURES
Hemodynamic and Metabolic Responses to Neuronal Activity

Ballroom A
08:15 – 9:30

Chairs: Chrit T. Moonen and Kamil Ugurbil
Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this session participants should be able to:

• Describe the metabolic reactions that support neuronal activity;
• Explain compartmentation of metabolic reactions among the different cell types that are present in the brain, and the significance of this compartmentation in neuronal transmission;
• Apply and interpret the information available from MR spectroscopy with respect to the abovementioned metabolic correlates of neuronal activity;
• Describe the coupling of metabolism to the hemodynamic response elicited by neurotransmission;
• Assess the current state of understanding of how neurovascular and metabolic events affect signals detected in functional neuro imaging with MR.
08:15 435. Neurotransmitters, Neuro-glia Interactions and Metabolic Coupling in the Brain, Pierre Magistretti, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
08:40 436. MRS of Neurochemistry in Action, Rolf Gruetter, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
09:05 437. Neurovascular Coupling - The Basis of Functional Brain Imaging, Arno Villringer, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

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