Main description:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures quick, tiny metabolic changes that take place in the brain, providing the most sensitive method currently available for identifying, investigating, and monitoring brain tumors, stroke, and chronic disorders of the nervous system like multiple sclerosis, and brain abnormalities related to dementia or seizures. This overview explains the principles of fMRI, scanning methodlogies, experimental design and data analysis, and outlines challenges and limitations of fMRI. It also provides a detailed neuroanatomic atlas, and describes clinical applications of fMRI in cognitive, sensory, and motor cases, translating research into clinical application.

Contents:

BOLD Functional MRI.- Principles of Functional MRI.- fMRI Scanning Methodologies.- Experimental Design and Data Analysis for fMRI.- Challenges in fMRI and Its Limitations.- Clinical Challenges of fMRI.- fMRI Clinical Applications.- Brain Mapping for Neurosurgery and Cognitive Neuroscience.- fMRI of Memory in Aging and Dementia.- fMRI of Language Systems: Methods and Applications.- fMRI Wada Test: Prospects for Presurgical Mapping of Language and Memory.- Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.- Neuroanatomical Atlas.- Neuroanatomical Atlas.