International fMRI Course Specific for Iraqi Researchers, April 2019

Iran’s National Brain Mapping Lab (NBML) held an educational course of fMRI for Iraqi researchers on April 17 – 19, 2019 in Tehran, Iran. The time table was as follows:

First day:

• Reception and Welcome (Prof. Mohammad Reza Ay, Dr. Hossein-Zadeh)
• MRI in Neuroscience (Dr. Hossein-Zadeh)
• Basics of fMRI (Dr. Hossein-Zadeh)
• Paradigm Design (Dr. Yargholi)
• NBML Tour (Ms. Pourabbasi)
• Practical session of a task in fMRI (Dr. Yargholi, Mr. Ghiasi)

Second Day:

• Basics of fMRI activation Detection (Hossein-Zadeh)
• FSL/SPM Software training and Hands-On (Dr. Yargholi, Mr. Khodaei)
• fMRI in Presurgical Planning (Dr. Malekian)
• Basics and applications of Diffusion Imaging (Dr. Nazem-Zadeh)
• Practical Session on resting state fMRI Acquisition, and patient handling (Dr. Yargholi+ Ms. Karimi)

Third Day:

• Basics of fMRI Connectivity (Hossein-Zadeh)
• Resting State fMRI: Methods and Applications (Zarghami)
• Hands-on connectivity analysis by CONN toolbox (Mr. Khodaei)
• Clinical and Research Applications of fMRI (Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh)
• Basics and training of DCM analysis (Dr. Zare-Sadeghi)
• Practice session of Diffusion Imaging etc. (Dr. Yargholi and Bastani)