Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

描述（由申请提供）：本申请的目的是请求支持创建一个永久性课程，以培训研究生，博士后，医学专业人员和基础科学教师使用功能MRI进行正常和脑损伤个体的心理研究。我们的目标是：(a)培训使用功能磁共振成像的基础研究人员，使他们能够在自己的机构进行成像研究；(b)对精神病学、神经病学、放射学和物理医学领域的住院医生进行功能磁共振成像培训，使他们能够将这些技术应用于他们自己关于精神健康问题的研究项目；(c)广泛宣传该课程，以吸引来自美国整个心理健康研究界的各种各样的参与者，并在经济上支持这些学生，使他们能够参加该课程。

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.