General Information
Catalog Description
Seminar, four hours, four units. In-depth examination of activation imaging, including MRI and electrophysiological methods, data acquisition and analysis, experimental design, and results obtained thus far in human systems. Strong focus on understanding technologies, how to design activation imaging paradigms, and how to interpret results. Laboratory visits and design and implementation of a functional MRI experiment.
Class size is limited to 20 persons. Enrollment is by permission of the instructors.
Course ID: 726509200
General
Functional Neuroimaging is taught as an upper division course and is intended to prepare students for independent experimentation using functional neuroimaging methods. The instructors believe that a solid understanding of the methods of data collection and analysis, and an understanding of the many sources of artifacts and error are essential to becoming a skilled practitioner. The course, however, is intended to be both comprehensive and self-contained. The primary requirements will be math through algebra, though experience in calculus would be helpful. A basic knowledge of human functional neuroanatomy (e.g. Dr. Bookheimer's course, Psychiatry 292), statistics, and experimental design for psychology experiments will be useful.
The class size will be limited to 20 people. Regular, for credit, students will receive priority for registration. Auditors, if accepted, will be required to participate fully in class and to turn in all problem sets and homeworks in order to remain in class.
Meeting time and place
Class will meet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 1 to 3 pm in the Brain Mapping Center conference room, 221. The first meeting will take place on September 30. Prior to class, please read chapters 1 and 2 of "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" by Huettel, McCarthy and Song.
Note that the meetings of the Society for Neuroscience take place from 10/23 through 10/27, during which we will not have class. We have scheduled a scanner demo on Veteran's day, 11/11, which is technically a UCLA holiday. There will be no meeting on 11/25, Thanksgiving day.
Class Materials
This year, the course will follow the new textbook, "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" by Huettel, McCarthy and Song. As a consequence, we will consider it required, and will not include reprints from this volume in the course reader. We have requested that the ASUCLA text book store reserve 20 copies.
Most of the articles cited here can be downloaded from this site and viewed with Acrobat Reader ( <-- you can obtain Acrobat by clicking this link...). A few articles are not available in digital form. We will reserve a copy of each for you to duplicate as needed. Contact Donnafaye Miranda for details.
