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Course is 80% full - please register soon if you plan to attend . > Please circulate to all who may be interested. > > We are pleased to announce the upcoming fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses Course with SPM8 and ICA to be held March 18-20th, 2010 at the Mind Research Network on the campus of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. > > The course faculty include Drs. Kent Kiehl and Vince Calhoun of the Mind and UNM, and Tor Wager of University of Colorado – Boulder. This course has been taught each year since 2003, was formerly known as the Yale University and Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses Course. > > The course is designed for fMRI researchers who range from beginning to intermediate skill levels. It will provide those who are just getting started with fMRI a comprehensive set of tools and software to get started with your own studies, and those who are more advanced will benefit from custom code and supplements to standard analyses developed by the instructors. We cover Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM5/8), independent component analyses (ICA) of fMRI data, mediation analysis of fMRI, and statistical nonparametric mapping (SnPM). The course provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of experimental design, image acquisition, image preprocessing, and analysis using the general linear model and ICA. > > The course is unique in that it pairs interactive lectures with hands-on demonstrations and work-through sessions. Each student works on their own laptop. Software will be installed on each student's laptop during the beginning of the course, including Matlab (a trial version), SPM5/8, the Group ICA of fMRI Toolbox (GIFT), and related SPM toolboxes, including statistical nonparametric mapping (SnPM) and the multi-level mediation fMRI toolbox (M3). In addition, alongside the lectures, participants will be trained to analyze example fMRI data on their laptops using these tools. > > The course will be small and interactive with many opportunities to work closely with the faculty. Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis; we apologize in advance if we cannot accommodate all who wish to attend, but we will admit as many people as possible given the interactive nature of the course. > > For registration and additional information, please visit the course website: > > http://www.mrn.org/courses/the-mrn-fmri-course > > You can register and pay the course fees online at the site above. In addition, you can pay by check. If you would like to pay for the course from a grant account, the best options are generally either to pay using PayPal and submit your receipt for reimbursement, or to arrange payment by check from your departmental administrator. > > Please contact Kent Kiehl [log in to unmask] if you have any questions. > _________________________________ Kent A. Kiehl, Ph.D. Director of Mobile Imaging Core and Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Mind Research Network Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience University of New Mexico Mailing Address: Mind Research Network 1101 Yale Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM, 87106 Office: 505-925-4516 [log in to unmask]