RT Book, Section T1 Functional MRI of Synaptic Plasticity. A1 Pacheco-Torres, Jesús A1 Moreno, Andrea A1 Fernández, Begoña A1 Pérez-Cervera, Laura A1 Caramés-Tejedor, José María A1 Fernández-Mollá, Luis Miguel A1 Pérez-Montoyo, Elena A1 Martínez-Sánchez, Miriam A1 Moratal, David A1 Canals-Gamoneda, Santiago A2 Manahan-Vaughan, Denise K1 Resonancia magnética nuclear (Medicina) - Modelos animales AB Since its discovery in the early 1990s, blood oxygen level dependent signal-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become a fundamental technique for the study of brain activity in basic and clinical research. Functional MRI provides an indirect but robust and quantitative readout of brain activity through the tight coupling between cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation, the so-called neurovascular coupling. Combined with experimental techniques such as electrophysiology, intracerebral microstimulation, optogenetics, or pharmacogenetics, it provides a powerful framework to investigate the impact of specific circuit manipulations on overall brain dynamics. In this chapter we review the contribution of some of these techniques to the understanding of short- and long-term plasticity processes and provide a comprehensive account of the protocols used in our laboratory. Considerations on the interpretation of the results and the limitations of the approach are also discussed. PB Elsevier YR 2018 FD 2018 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34829 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34829 LA eng DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026