Scientific Agenda
Please see below the schedule for the March 27/28, 2025 course.
Day 1 – Thursday March 27, 2025
7:30 – 8:00 am Registration and fMRI screening form.
Coffee for Registrants
ESSENTIALS OF FMRI IMAGING
8:00 – 8:15 Welcome and overview of the 2-day fMRI-DTI course
Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR
8:15 – 9:00 Introduction to BOLD, Paradigm Design and General Linear Model
for Task Based BOLD fMRI
Christopher Conk.in, Ph.D.
9:00 – 9:15 Presenting BOLD fMRI Data-Statistical Processing Strategies
Devon Middleton, PhD
9:15 – 10:00 Clinical Overview of Motor and Language BOLD fMRI - Paradigms,
Statistics, Interpretation and Reporting
Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Clinical case review of BOLD fMRI
Kiran S. Talekar, MD, MBBS, FASFNR
11:00 – 11:20 Review of Neurovascular Uncoupling (NVU) in BOLD fMRI
Joga Chaganti, MD
11:20 – 12:15 pm Lunch
AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Participating in fMRI scanning on our Prisma 3T
LANGUAGE DATA PROCESSING
1:45 – 3:15 Practical Exercises on Language Data Processing and Review
Devon Middleton, PhD
- Step by Step Lecture
Support Faculty:
Mahdi Alizadeh, PhD,
Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD,
Zahra Sedeghi-Adl, MS (PhD student)
Sahar Monadi, MD,
Spandanas Tammiraju, MD
Feroze B. Mohamed, PhD, FASFNR
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
RESTING STATE FMRI
3:30 – 4:00 Introduction to Resting state fMRI (rsfMRI)
Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D.
4:00 – 4:15 Introduction to ICA for rsfMRI
Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD
4:15 – 5:15 Practical Exercise on Resting State Analysis
Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D. and Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD
- Step by Step Lecture
Support Faculty:
Devon Middleton, PhD,
Sara Naghizadehkashani, MD,
Zahra Sedeghi-Adl, MS
Sahar Monadi, MD,
Spandanas Tammiraju, MD,
Feroze B. Mohamed, PhD, FASFNR
5:15 – 5:30 Review SPM Processing and Resting State fMRI with Q&A Session
All Faculty
5:30 pm First day Workshop Concludes
5:30 pm + Join us for a cocktail reception at a local restaurant.
Day 2 – Friday March 28, 2025
ESSENTIALS OF DTI/TRACTOGRAPHY IMAGING
8:00 am– 8:05 Welcome
Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR
DTI-TRACTOGRAPHY
8:05 – 8:45 Introduction to Physical Principles of DTI/Tractography
Mahdi Alizadeh, Ph.D.
8:45 – 9:30 Review of anatomy and cognitive features of Key White Matter Tracts
Scott H. Faro, MD, FASFNR
9:30 – 10:00 Key clinical white matter tracts
Michael Hoch, MD
10:00 -10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 -11:00 Clinical fMRI/DTI case-based review
Kiran Talekar, MD
11:00 -11:30 Neurosurgery Prospective of fMRI-DTI Brain mapping
Kevin Judy, MD
11:30 -12 pm Advanced DTI/Tractography for Neuromodulation in complex motion disorders.
Chengyuan Wu, MD
12 – 1 pm Manufacture Lunch Presentations
AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS
1:00 -2:30 Manufactures Hands on Review: Session 1
The attendees will be separated into 3-4 small groups to allow
you to take your time with the manufacturers.
2:30 – 2:45 Coffee Break
2:45 – 4:15 Manufactures Hands on Review: Session 2
4:15 – 4:30 Final review of clinical fMRI-DTI with Q&A All Faculty