Advances in Resting-State Functional MRI

Dr. Jean Chen is a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Neuroimaging of Aging. She is also faculty in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD (2009) in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University, and completed her postdoctoral work on multimodal MRI of brain aging at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School (2011). She is best known for her work on fMRI measurements of brain physiology and physiology of the aging brain. Catie Chang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in the Radiological Sciences Lab. She was then a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health. In 2018, she joined Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor. Her lab seeks to advance understanding of human brain function by developing techniques for analyzing and interpreting neuroimaging data.

• 1. Introduction to resting-state fMRI 2. Evolutionary context for functional connectivity 3. Structural vs. functional connectivity 4. Brain network atlases 5. Neuronal significance of physiological effects and the global signal 6. Head-motion effects 7. Vascular contributions and vasomotion effects 8. Vigilance and mental-state effects 9. Multimodal methods to help interpret resting-state fMRI 10. Quality assurance: best practices 11. Multi-echo BOLD fMRI and highly accelerated fMRI 12. Laminar/layer functional connectivity and blood volume rs-fMRI 13. Dynamic functional connectivity 14. Parcellation and fingerprinting 15. Resting-state CVR 16. Clinical applications of rs-fMRI