Clinical MRI Research in Human Brain Mapping

BRAIN MAPPING IN NEUROSURGERY

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

Mapping Human Whole-Brain Structural Networks with Diffusion MRI

Understanding the large-scale structural network formed by neurons is a major challenge in system neuroscience. A detailed connectivity map covering the entire brain would therefore be of great value. Based on diffusion MRI, we propose an efficient methodology to generate large, comprehensive and individual white matter connectional datasets of the living or dead, human or animal brain. This no...

Brain mapping in Neurosurgical oncology

After the introduction of MRI, new modalities facilitated the procedure of surgical planning to achieve the microsurgical goal and improve prognosis and quality of life in patients. Despite the variable applications of preoperative and intraoperative mapping and monitoring systems, several limitations and concerns are reported for every modality as well. In this issue of the IrJNS, we are delig...

Brain MRI Findings in Tramadol Poisoning

Title: Presurgical Brain Mapping: Resting State MRI

Speaker Name: Joshua Shimony, MD, PhD, [email protected] Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Highlights: -Task based fMRI is an established technique for mapping eloquent cortex. -Resting state fMRI (RS-fMRI) methods are currently under investigation. -The clinical application of RS-fMRI to the mapping of eloquent cortex is a new method under investigation with som...