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Brain mapping --- Connectome mapping --- Mapping of the brain --- Topographic brain mapping --- Brain --- Statistical methods. --- Localization of functions

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fMRI is a very popular method for researchers and clinicians to image human brain activity in response to given mental tasks. This book presents a comprehensive review of the methods for computing activity maps, while providing an intuitive and mathematical outline of how each method works. The approaches include statistical parametric maps (SPM), hemodynamic response modeling and deconvolution, Bayesian, Fourier and nonparametric methods. The newest activity maps provide information on regional connectivity and include principal and independent component analysis, crisp and fuzzy clustering, structural equation modeling, and dynamic causal modeling. Preprocessing and experimental design issues are discussed with references made to the software available for implementing the various methods. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it will appeal to anyone with an interest in fMRI and who is looking to expand their perspectives of this technique.

Computational neuroscience. --- Brain mapping --- Connectome mapping --- Mapping of the brain --- Topographic brain mapping --- Brain --- Computational neurosciences --- Computational biology --- Neurosciences --- Data processing. --- Mathematics. --- Localization of functions

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Brain mapping. --- Nervous system --- Brain Mapping. --- Brain --- Surgery. --- surgery. --- Brain Electrical Activity Mapping --- Functional Cerebral Localization --- Topographic Brain Mapping --- Brain Mapping, Topographic --- Functional Cerebral Localizations --- Mapping, Brain --- Mapping, Topographic Brain --- Stereotaxic Techniques --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Connectome mapping --- Mapping of the brain --- Topographic brain mapping --- Surgery --- Localization of functions --- Xarxes neuronals (Neurobiologia) --- Mapatge del cervell

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This year is the 30h anniversary of functional magnetic resonance imaging, initially introduced by Seiji Ogawa and coworkers. Since then fMRI has evolved into an invaluable clinical tool for routine brain imaging. This book provides a state of the art overview of fMRI and its use in clinical practice. Experts in the field share their knowledge and explain how to overcome diverse potential technical barriers and problems. Starting from the very basics on the origin of the BOLD signal, the book covers technical issues, anatomical landmarks, the full range of clinical applications, methods of statistical analysis, and special issues in various clinical fields. Comparisons are made with other brain mapping techniques and their combined use with fMRI is also discussed.

Nervous system --- Brain mapping --- Radiography. --- Methodology. --- Data processing. --- Connectome mapping --- Mapping of the brain --- Topographic brain mapping --- Brain --- Neuroradiography --- Neuroradiology --- Localization of functions --- Diseases --- Neuroradiology. --- Neurosurgery. --- Neurology . --- Neurology. --- Medicine --- Neuropsychiatry --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Surgery

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The brain of each animal shows specific traits that reflect its phylogenetic history and its particular lifestyle. Therefore, comparing brains is not just a mere intellectual exercise, but it helps understanding how the brain allows adaptive behavioral strategies to face an ever-changing world and how this complex organ has evolved during phylogeny, giving rise to complex mental processes in humans and other animals. These questions attracted scientists since the times of Santiago Ramon y Cajal one of the founders of comparative neurobiology. In the last decade, this discipline has undergone a true revolution due to the analysis of expression patterns of morphogenetic genes in embryos of different animals. The title of the Research Topic, Adaptive Function and Brain Evolution, stresses the importance of comparative studies to understand brain function and, the reverse, of considering brain function to properly understand brain evolution. This issues should be taken into account when using animals in the research of mental function and dysfunction. The papers of this Research Topic are focused onto the following four Grand Questions of comparative neurobiology: 1) How are different brains built during ontogeny?; 2) What is the anatomical organization of mature brains and how can they be compared?; 3) How do brains work to accomplish their function of ensuring survival and, ultimately, reproductive success?; 4) How have brains evolved during phylogeny?

Comparative neurobiology. --- Neurophysiology. --- Brain --- Brain mapping. --- Anatomy. --- Growth. --- Evolution. --- Connectome mapping --- Mapping of the brain --- Topographic brain mapping --- Nervous system --- Neurobiology --- Physiology --- Comparative neurology --- Localization of functions --- comparative neurobiology --- brain evolution --- phylogeny --- ontogeny