Ways of studying the brain

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    • what are the four types of ways of studying the brain?
      • post-mortem examinations
      • fMRI
      • EEG
      • ERP
    • what are post-mortem examinations?
      ways of examining the brains of people who have shown particular psychological abnormalities prior to their deaths in an attempt to establish the possible neurobiological cause for this behaviour
      they look as the brain post death
    • what does fMRI stand for?
      functional magnetic resonance imaging