Speaker : Bharat BISWAL, Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
"The Present, the past and the future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging"
Since the discovery of resting state functional connectivity in the human brain in 1995, this neuroimaging approach has revolutionized the study of functional neural architecture. Once considering noise, the functional significance of spontaneous low-frequency fluctuations across large-scale brain networks has now been acknowledged and investigated in over 20,000 published studies. In this talk, we provide a historical overview and roadmap for the future of resting state fMRI research, highlighting the most widely used metrics and informative analytic approaches that have been developed to date.
The creative and collaborative efforts that have led to the widespread use of resting state fMRI in human neuroscience research are reviewed, with an emphasis on the methodological innovations made possible by contributions from electrical and biomedical engineering, physics, and computer science. We focus on key theoretical advances necessary for further progress in the field, highlighting the need for greater mechanistic insights derived from concurrent measurement of neurophysiology and greater appreciation for the role of white matter signals in brain function.
We propose that resting state functional neuroimaging has the potential for even greater clinical relevance when fully integrated with population neuroscience and global health initiatives.
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Conference location
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