The national foundation for functional brain imaging-merging two extreme applications of magnetic fields for neuroimaging

摘要

One of the greatest problems facing humanity today is the diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill. It is an area that affects not only the afflicted themselves and their families but also society in general due to the loss to the working population and the high medical costs to the community. It is thus important to develop techniques that can successfully provide diagnosis and suggest treatments for a broad base of neurological and psychiatric diseases as well as in the basic neuroscience of how the brain functions. Neuroimaging represents such a technique with the most successful approaches combining different methodologies that, when applied together, offer exacting information on the "when and the where" of brain function. This implies high precision for the spatial description of brain function combined with precise temporal data on the flow of this functional information.