Specific neurotransmitters can be measured directly in a living human brain
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Specific neurotransmitters and their release or metabolic activity can indeed be measured directly in the living human brain using advanced neuroimaging techniques such as PET and specialized magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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Non-invasive measurement of neurotransmitter-specific glucose metabolism in the human brain using proton-observed proton-edited <sup>13</sup> C-MRS (POPE <sup>13</sup> C-MRS)
2026 · cited by 1
Paper 1 discusses non-invasive magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods that enable in vivo detection of neurotransmitter-specific metabolism in the human brain.
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A generalized framework for <i>in vivo</i> detection of dopamine release using positron emission tomography.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper 9 explains that voxel-level detection of task-induced dopamine release in the human brain is achievable with dynamic PET imaging.