Friday 07:00 Morning Categorical Course: fMRI in Neuro-Psychiatric Disease and Treatment: Models for fMRI and phMRI in Disease Treatment

MORNING CATEGORICAL COURSE:
fMRI in Neuro-Psychiatric Disease and Treatment:
Models for fMRI and phMRI in Disease Treatment

Room A201
07:00 – 08:00

Chairs: Linda Chang and Peter Jezzard

Educational Objectives

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.

07:00 Issues of Animal fMRI Models, Mathias Hoehn.

07:15 Animal Models of phMRI, Bruce G. Jenkins.

07:30 Prospects for Human phMRI, Irene Tracey.

07:45 Discussion.