The second edition of this volume provides up-to-date methods on the main methodological aspects of functional MRI (fMRI), applying fMRI to the study of central nervous system, and future evolutions of fMRI techniques. fMRI: Method and Protocols, Second Edition guides the reader through chapters on basic knowledge for the understanding of the technical aspects of fMRI, overview of the main results derived from the application of fMRI to the study of healthy individuals, application of fMRI to assess the role of brain plasticity in the major neurological and psychiatric conditions, and novel approaches for the integration of fMRI data.

Concise and easy-to-use, fMRI: Method and Protocols, Second Edition aims to be useful to clinicians and researchers with a user-friendly summary of the field and necessary background ensuring further successful studies.

Principles of MRI and Functional MRI.- Introduction to Functional MRI Hardware.- Selection of Optimal Pulse Sequences for fMRI.- High-Field fMRI.- Experimental Design.- Preparing fMRI Data for Statistical Analysis.- Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data.- Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Responses.- Brain Atlases: Their Development and Role in Functional Inference.- Graph Theoretic Analysis of Human Brain Networks.- Functional MRI: Applications in Cognitive Neuroscience.- FMRI of Language Systems.- Neuroimaging Approaches to the Study of Visual Attention.- fMRI of Memory.- fMRI of Emotion.- fMRI of Pain.- fMRI of the Sensorimotor System.- Functional Imaging of the Human Visual System.- fMRI of the Central Auditory System.- Application of fMRI to Multiple Sclerosis and Other White Matter Disorders.- fMRI in Cerebrovascular Disorders.- fMRI in Psychiatric Disorders.- fMRI in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Scientific Insights to Clinical Applications.- fMRI in Epilepsy.- fMRI in Neurosurgery.- Pharmacological Applications of fMRI.- Application of fMRI to Monitor Motor Rehabilitation.- Multivariate Approaches for Multimodal Fusion of Structural and Functional Brain Imaging Data.- Functional MRI of the Spinal Cord.- Clinical Applications of the Functional Connectome.