Functional MRI

Papers

Sörös P, Marmurek J, Tam F, Baker N, Staines WR, Graham SJ. Functional MRI of working memory and selective attention in vibrotactile frequency discrimination. BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8:48. PubMed Abstract Reprint

Sörös P, Sokoloff LG, Bose A, McIntosh AR, Graham SJ, Stuss DT. Clustered functional MRI of overt speech production. Neuroimage 2006;32(1):376-387. PubMed Reprint

Presentations

Sörös P. fMRI in a Nutshell. A presentation about the basics of MRI and fMRI (Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003). Download

Links

FSL & Freesurfer Course These are all slides and practical instructions, including sample data, used at the FSL & Freesurfer course in Siena, June 2006.

FMRI for dummies. pdf

The Basics of MRI. A excellent introduction to the principles of MRI, written by Joseph Hornak, Rochester Institute of Technology.

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

Meta-analysis of swallowing

Sörös P, Inamoto Y, Martin RE. Functional brain imaging of swallowing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Dec 23.

Somatosensory processing

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Sörös P, Lalone E, Smith R, Stevens T, Theurer J, Menon R, Martin R. Functional MRI of oropharyngeal air-pulse stimulation. Neuroscience 2008, 153: 1300-1308.
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This fMRI study identified the neural circuitry associated with somatosensory processing of short air pulses delivered to the oral cavity.