Hi,
There is a lot info out there about why we should use standardised tasks (eg):
http://xwiki.nbirn.net:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Function-BIRN/MultisiteFMRIDevelopment#
and other places such as here:
http://www.imagilys.com/clinical-fmri-paradigms/
Can anyone point me in the direction of some papers (with the actual
tasks included) or a set of such tasks on the web somewhere for use in
some research in surgical planning. (ie: motor, sensory, speech, etc).
Yes I realise that there are difficulties in making a one-size-fits
all approach for such things but surely there is a lowest common
denominator for such things.
For example there seems to be a consensus that "Finger, Toe, Tongue"
tasks for the motor cortex are a "good thing". -- [1] But of course
you could deliver this via an auditory system or visual. etc..
FWIW, for now in my current "ghetto-tech" fMRI setup that I bashed
together for a Masters student uses OpenOffice to export the tasks to
PDF which is then "played back" using auto-advance with a pdf viewer.
For simple rArArA type tasks (motor, sensory, visual) it works fine.
Thanks
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Andrew Janke - [log in to unmask]
Department of Geriatric Medicine, ANU
Canberra->Australia +61 (402) 700 883
1 - Neurol Res. 2008 Nov;30(9):968-73. Epub 2008 Jul 30.
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