State of the art overview of fMRI

Covers technical issues, methods of statistical analysis, and the full range of clinical applications

Revised and expanded edition including discussion of novel aspects of analysis and further important applications

Includes comparisons with other brain mapping techniques and discussion of potential combined uses

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Introduction.- Neuroanatomy and cortical landmarks.- Spatial resolution of fMRI techniques.- The electrophysiological background of the fMRI signal.- fMRI data analysis using SPM.- Meta-analyses in basic and clinical neuroscience: State of the art and perspective.- Preoperative blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of motor and somatosensory functions.- The functional anatomy of speech processing: from auditory cortex to speech recognition and speech production.- Use of fMRI language lateralization for quantitative prediction of naming and verbal memory outcome in left temporal lobe epilepsy surgery.- Mapping of recovery from poststroke aphasia: comparison of Pet and fMRI.- Functional magnetic resonance-guided brain tumor resection.- Direct cortical stimulation and fMRI.- Imaging epilepsy and epileptic seizures using fMRI.- Multimodal brain mapping in patients with early brain lesions.- Special issues in fMRI involving children.- Modelling connectivity in health and disease: examples from the motor system.- fMRI in Parkinson's disease.- The perirhinal, entorhinal and parahippocampal cortices and hippocampus: an overview of functional anatomy and protocol for their segmentation in MR images.- Simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings (EEG-fMRI).- Combining transcranial magnetic stimulation with fMRI.- Clinical magnetoencephalography and fMRI.- Incidental findings in neuroimaging research: Ethical considerations.