Contributing Author: Daniel S. Barron, PhD
Overview: You’ve stared the dazzling brain images on PowerPoints, papers, and websites. But what do these pictures mean? What do they represent? And what’s the connection between the giant donut magnet and the images you see?
The goal of this review is to conceptually overview how neuroimaging—specifically magnetic resonance imaging—works and what it sets out to accomplish.
Author Affiliations: Dr. Barron is currently a medical student at Yale School of Medicine. The National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative is a collaborative effort with AADPRT and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning and receives support from the NIH (R25 MH10107602S1) ©National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative.
