APA Advanced Training Institute in fMRI

描述(申请人提供)：功能磁共振成像 功能磁共振成像(FMRI)是一项重要的新研究技术，它允许对 大脑活动与各种各样的行为、认知和 情感过程。随着研究人员继续研究，重大进展将会出现 利用功能磁共振成像开发多层次、一体化的正常功能模型 和精神变态学。的理论和方法专长 心理学科学家将对这一进步的步伐起到至关重要的作用。尽管功能磁共振成像 为心理学科学家提供了一个令人兴奋的新工具来开发 跨不同实质性区域的大脑-行为交互，机会 获得使用它所需的知识和技能是有限的。扶植 功能磁共振成像技术在心理学研究中的应用进展 美国心理协会(APA)科学局已经 创办了功能磁共振高级培训学院 成像(ATI-fMRI)。该研究所将在现场进行一次重大成像 中心，将在足够高级的水平上介绍fMRI 使不同学术水平和不同研究的研究人员 有兴趣将其纳入他们的研究计划。课程设置将 提供物理、生物学和力学方面的基本知识 成像过程，特别研究设计和数据分析考虑因素， 以及与将成像纳入研究相关的实际问题 程序。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is an important new research technology that allows inquiry into the brain activities associated with a wide variety of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional processes. Major advances will occur as researchers continue to utilize fMRI to develop multi-level, integrative models of normal functioning and psychopathology. The theoretical and methodological expertise of psychological scientists will be crucial to the pace of progress. Although fMRI offers psychological scientists an exciting new tool to develop models of brain-behavior interactions across diverse substantive areas, opportunities to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to use it are limited. To foster development of the use of fMRI technology in psychological research, the Science Directorate at the American Psychological Association (APA) has initiated an Advanced Training Institute in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ATI-fMRI). The Institute, to be conducted on-site at a major imaging center, will provide an introduction to fMRI at a sufficiently advanced level to enable researchers at different academic levels and with different research interests to incorporate it into their research programs. The curriculum will provide basic knowledge of the physics, biology, and mechanics underlying the imaging process, of special research design and data analysis considerations, and of practical issues related to incorporating imaging into a research program.