Fall Semester
Tu  2:30-4:30 p.m.
LBME conference room 2

Luis Hernandez-Garcia, Ph.D.
hernan@umich.edu
763-9254

This course is intended to be a follow-up to the "Introduction to Functional MRI" course.  Each week a current paper from the field of neuroimaging will be presented in depth by a student who is registered for credit. 

The topics covered will include artifacts in fMRI, functional connectivity, diffusion, perfusion, causality, physiology and non-linearities of the BOLD effect, image processing issues in neuroimaging, multiple comparisons, alternative analyses techniques such as independent component analysis, among others. Please see the SYLLABUS

The discussion will take place as an interactive seminar and will be moderated by the instructor.  Some papers will be moderated by invited faculty, depending on the topic.

Grades will be based on attendance, depth of the presentation, and class participation.  Auditors are welcome and encouraged to participate in the discussion.

Prerequisites:  Intro to fMRI (listed as BIOS 642, BME 499, PSYCH 808), 

The seminar replaces the old "Functional Neuroimaginf Group meeting"

This course also serves as multi-disciplinary journal club for researchers interested in functional neuroimaging issues, regardless of the data acquisition modality.    Usually, the meetings were fairly informal, yet very educational.  Students as well as faculty with an interest in neuroimaging are encouraged to attend even if they're not registered or if they have taken the class before.