In the last two decades many has been published on whiplash injury, which is sometimes looked upon as an accident causing extensive symptomatology without the presence of objective findings. Diagnostics of the late whiplash syndrome is an even more challenging endeavour. So far, functional neuroimaging was rarely utilized in contrast to morphological imaging tools, the latter being inconspicuous in most cases, the first showing significant deficits mainly in the posterior parietal occipital region, as first described in 1995 from Otte et al. with perfusion single-photon emission tomography (SPET) to be followed by some other groups and imaging devices (e.g., Freitag et al., 2001; Lass and Lyczak, 2004).
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