Thursday, 13 February 2014

Resting state fMRI

Resting state fMRI (rsfMRI or R-fMRI) is a method of functional brain imaging that can be used to evaluate regional interactions that occur when a subject is not performing an explicit task.

 -- Bharat Biswal --

Biswal, B. B. (2012). Resting state fMRI: A personal history. [Review]. Neuroimage, 62(2), p. 938-944

Conference this year:
http://www.martinos.org/brainconnectivity/

Spring school in Ghent:
http://www.da.ugent.be/school2014/#.UxWRoV5kL2c


Frequently asked questions:

What is resting state fMRI? What discerns resting state activity from other types of noise? · Which are the frequency characteristics of current resting state analyses?

How do we process rs-fMRI data? · What are basic analysis strategies of local and interregional activity? · How do we treat physiological noise? · What are the effects of global mean regression? ·

What is connectivity? · What is functional versus structural connectivity? · What is discerned: cross correlation, granger causality, standard seed-based approaches, or (semi) partial correlation? · How can we use rs-fMRI to parcellate the brain? ·

What are brain networks? · What are functional networks of the brain? · How do we use ICA and what is it good for? · What are other network approaches? · How do I analyze graph properties during rest?

What is the default mode network? · What are task positive and task negative networks? · What are functions of the default mode network? · How do we assess within and between network activities?

What is ongoing activity? · How are resting state fluctuations and attention related? ·

What about interindividual variability? · What is reliable, what stable and what changes in rs-fMRI? · What are dynamic properties of connectivity? · Which pharmacological effects do we know? · How is brain development related to its resting state? 

Which clinical aspects can we investigate? · What are robust findings of abnormal resting state behavior in patients? · What is the perfect clinical resting state experiment? · How can we use rs-fMRI in diagnosis and monitoring of patients? · What needs to be solved for multicenter approaches using resting state fMRI?

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