Drs. Scott H. Faro and Feroze B. Mohamed of Drexel University College of Medicine have succeeded in translating benchmark research on functional MRI into clinical applications for the non-scientist physician, providing those unfamiliar with fMRI physics with much needed background. This practical and timely volume presents an overview of the principles of fMRI and explains experimental research design, outlines the challenges and limitations of fMRI, provides a detailed neuroanatomic atlas, and describes the clinical applications of fMRI in cognitive, sensory, motor, and pharmacological cases. Contributors to this comprehensive text include internationally recognized neurologists, radiologists, and psychologists. Abundant illustrations, most in color, complete the book.
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.- Neuroanatomical Atlas.- Neuroanatomical Atlas.- fMRI Clinical Applications.- Brain Mapping for Neurosurgery and Cognitive Neuroscience.- Applications of fMRI to Psychiatry.- 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.- fMRI of Epilepsy.- fMRI of the Visual Pathways.- fMRI of the Auditory Cortex.- Pediatric Applications of fMRI.- fMRI of Clinical Pain.- Pharmacological Applications of fMRI.- Cognitive Neuroscience Applications.- Clinical Overview and Future fMRI Applications.
