N123L: Human Neuroimaging Lab is taught in Fall Quarter by Professor Craig Stark.
Dr. Craig Stark
Prerequisite: BIO SCI 93 and (BIO SCI 100 or BIO SCI 108). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.
Restriction: Seniors only. Students who require this lab for completion of their degree have first consideration for enrollment.
Course Objective:
Modern neuroimaging tools give us a host of ways that we can peer inside our heads to see what our brains look like, how they change over the course of our lives, and how they function. We can watch as different brain regions engage and form different patterns of activity as we perceive the world, learn information, or solve problems. We can do this all without harm. How? How do these neuroimaging techniques work? How is it that we can use huge magnets to get a 3D picture of your brain or of patterns of neural activity?
Topic Overview:
| # | Topic |
| 1 | Discussion of Course Structure and Content
Go over Imaging techniques, how they work, and what can they tell us |
| 2 | Discussion on how MRI works, demi if fsleyes |
| 3 | Go over Viewing Images activity
Go over Sample Artifacts from the textbook |
| 4 | Go over the Structural MRI lecture
Set up for Lab 1: Where’s the brain |
| 5 | Go over Lab 1
Setup for Tissue Type Segmentation activity |
| 6 | Go over Tissue Type Segmentation activity
Go Over Advanced Structural Lecture Setup for Shape Analysis activity |
| 7 | Go over Shape Analysis activity
Set up for Lab 2 |
| 8 | Go over Lab 2
Go over Image Registration Setup Registration 1 activity |
| 9 | Go Over Registration 1
Set up Registration 2 activity |
| 10 | Go over Registration 2
MRI Safety Discussion |
| 11 | Go over MRI Safety Exam and both the lectures |
| 12 | Go over Pre-processing and Single-Subject Analysis lectures
Setup the Single-Subject Analysis |
| 13 | Go over Single-Subject fMRI Fluency activity
Setup Lab 3: Case Study in Word Generation (Formal write-up of activity’s results) |
| 14 | Go over Lab 3
Go over Group Level Analysis in fMRI lecture and setup activity |
| 15 | Help on Group Analysis activity and lab |
| 16 | Help on Group Analysis activity and Lab 4
Go over Other MRI Methods and Techniques General Q&A |
| 17 | Live Lecture – Using MRI to Explore Pattern Separation and the Aging Hippocampus |