Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

描述（由应用程序提供）：本申请的目的是请求支持创建一个永久课程，以培训研究生、博士后、医疗专业人员和基础科学教师使用功能性MRI对正常和脑损伤个体进行心理研究。我们的目标是：（a）培训基础研究人员使用功能性磁共振成像，使他们能够在自己的机构进行成像研究;（B）培训精神病学、神经病学、放射学和物理医学领域的住院医生使用功能性磁共振成像，使他们能够将这些技术应用于自己有关精神健康问题的研究计划;（c）广泛宣传课程，吸引美国精神健康研究界各方面的学生参加，并资助这些学生修读课程。 拟议的课程有以下特点：为期两周的讲座和实验室课程，涵盖（a）MRI和fMRI的物理学，（B）可用的数据采集例程的类型，（c）阻塞和事件相关范例的实验设计，（d）用于fMRI数据的后处理例程，（e）数据分析的参数和非参数技术的覆盖范围，（e）解释大脑活动，（f）学生收集和分析数据的动手实验。此外，我们计划在课程的第一周提供一套可选的两个晚上的课程，其中包括阅读结构MRI图像的指导，以识别正常的大脑结构，并识别受伤大脑中的一些典型的大脑异常。

DESCRIPTION (provided by application): The purpose of this application is to request support to create a permanent course to train graduate students, post docs, medical professionals, and basic science faculty on the use of functional MRI for psychological studies of normal and brain-injured individuals. Our aims are these: (a) to train basic researchers on the use of fMRI so that they can conduct imaging studies at their home institutions; (b) to train medical residents in the fields of psychiatry, neurology, radiology, and physical medicine on fMRI so that they can apply the techniques to their own research programs concerning mental health issues; (c) to advertise the course widely to attract a diverse body of participants from throughout the mental health research community in the United States and to support these students financially so that they can attend the course. The proposed course has the following features: A two-week curriculum of lectures and laboratories covering (a) the physics of MRI and fMRI, (b) the types of data acquisition routines available, (c) experimental design for blocked and event-related paradigms, (d) post-processing routines that are used on fMRI data, (e) coverage of parametric and nonparametric techniques for data analysis, (e) interpretation of brain activations, and (f) a hands-on experiment in which students collect and analyze data. In addition, we plan to offer an optional set of two evening sessions the first week of the course that will include instruction on reading structural MRI images to identify normal brain structures and to identify some typical brain abnormalities in injured brains.