Developmental Neuroimaging

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Contents Main topics:

* Basics of fMRI signal (BOLD response)

* Preprocessing of fMRI data and experimental design for task-based MRI

* Individual (first-level) analysis of fMRI data

* Group (second level) analyses of fMRI data, ANOVA Models, multiple regression models

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully completed this module will have acquired insights into the basics of fMRI acquistion and anaysis. Different experimental designs will be discussed. An exemplary task-based  dataset will be analyzed including preprocessing, single-subject and group-level statistics. The use of such techniques in psychiatric populations will be discussed. As an outlook, we will touch on opportunities of informing such analysis by computational modeling.

Skills and Methods

basic processing of functional and structural MRI data, hands-on application to fMRI data