BOLD

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Measures local fluctuations in deoxyhemoglobin through the Hemodynamic response function.

It’s controversial what this actually represents:

Viswanathan2007 (Review: Nichols2016)

  • Cerebral vasoconstrictors can cause an increase in deoxyhemoglobin concentrations, resulting in a decrease in the BOLD baseline resting signal Mulderink2002
  • Hemodynamic neuroimaging signals as proxy measures for neuronal activity invites off-target effects, such as peripheral actions mediated by other receptor subtypes you’re not interested in


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