Room A201
07:00 – 08:00

Chairs: Linda Chang and Peter Jezzard

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify the special issues facing clinicians and researchers who wish to apply functional MRI to patient populations;
• Describe fMRI studies that have been successfully accomplished in neurological and psychiatric disorders;
• List a number of issues that remain to be resolved before widespread use of fMRI in patient populations is feasible;
• Describe the role and potential of animal models in increasing the understanding of fMRI studies in disease;
• Explain the principles and theory of pharmacological (ph) MRI;
• Appraise the potential for phMRI in humans and predict the impact on disease treatment.