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Which are structural techniques?
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X-ray and CT
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MRI
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Contrast agents
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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PET
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fMRI
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EEG
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MEG
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ECoG
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Which are functional techniques?
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PET
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fMRI
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EEG
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MEG
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ECoG
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MRI
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CT
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X-ray and CT techniques are great at showing:
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Blood vessels
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Different brain regions
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Ventricles
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Electrical activity
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_________ ventricles could be due to tumour; _________ ventricles could be due to schizophrenia
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Shrunken; expanded
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Expanded; shrunken
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Which technique measures proton densities?
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MRI
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Contrast agents
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PET
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Electrocorticography
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What is the most common contrast agent?
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Gadolinium
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TM tomato
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Haemoglobin
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Phosphorescents
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What is true of Diffusion Tensor Imaging?
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Shows fibre tracts
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Measures hydrogen densities
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Is a structural MRI technique
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Water molecules diffuse more easily through the cross-section of neurons than along the long axis
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Makes a lot of assumptions
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Which technique involves the injection of a radioactive isotope?
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CT
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PET
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Electrocorticography
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MEG
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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What are examples of radioactive isotopes?
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Oxygen
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Glucose
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Gadolinium
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Tm tomato
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The brain takes about [blank_start]3[blank_end]% of the body's weight, but uses about [blank_start]20[blank_end]% of its nutrients
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What is true of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF)?
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Active regions release Nitrous Oxide to local arterioles
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Nitrous Oxide released retroactively
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Causes arterioles to constrict
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Very slow change
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Causes change in ratio of de:oxygenated blood
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Which techniques are based on the close association between vasculature and metabolism?
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fMRI
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PET
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EEG
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MEG
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Contrast agents
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Which techniques measure electromagnetic fields generated by ionic current flow in active neurons?
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EEG
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MEG
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fMRI
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PET
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Contrast agents
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Which techniques are invasive?
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MRI
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PET
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Electrocorticography
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EEG
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MEG
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Which technique involves placing grids of electrodes directly on the surface of the brain?
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When is Electrocorticography used?
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What does MEG measure?
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Strength of magnetic field
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Strength of electrical field
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Location of magnetic field
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Location of electrical field
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What is contained in a "dewer" and used to keep the SQUID close to absolute zero?
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Liquid helium
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Nitrous oxide
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Dry ice
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Hydrogen
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Why do MRI scans have to be done after MEG?
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Which technique induces electrical current flow by producing strong magnetic fields?
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Which technique delivers a small electrical current?
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Which is true of children's Fusiform gyrus response to faces, compared to adults:
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What is true of standard template brains?
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Normalise brains
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Allows statistical analyses on brain maps
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Is a standard size and shape
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Used for structural brain images
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Which standard template brain is based on a single well-characterised brain?
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Talairach atlas
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MNI atlas
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Tesseract atlas
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Monoamine atlas
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Which standard template brain is based on an average of hundreds of MRI scans?
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MNI atlas
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Talairach atlas
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Tesseract atlas
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When is fMRI mostly used?
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When is MEG usually used?
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What is true of hippocampal theta oscillations?
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Very active in novel environments
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Ties together place cells
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Tuned to specific locations in an environment
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Different place cells fire at different phases of the theta oscillation
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Important for semantic memory
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Measured by EEG
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Which regions make up the Default Mode Network?
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Cingulate
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Parietal
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Frontal
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Temporal
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Occipital
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Limbic
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Diencephalonic
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Which techniques are based on machine-learning?
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Connectivity
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Decoding
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Connectomics
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Machine reading
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What is true of Connectivity analysis?
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Based on graph theory
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Emphasises brain structures over brain networks
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Multi-voxel pattern analysis
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Based on machine-learning
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What is true of Decoding techniques?
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Multi-voxel pattern analysis
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Analyses patterns of activity to complex stimuli
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Analyses patterns of activity to simple stimuli
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Based on graph theory
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Based on machine-learning
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Why is the reproducibility crisis particularly acute in neuroimaging?
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Huge amount of data
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Increased possibilty of false positives
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Too expensive to have large samples
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Large researcher degrees of freedom
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Statistical double-dipping
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Results tend to have a large impact on society
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Pre-registration of hypotheses
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Data sharing
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How has fMRI improved?
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Gone from 1.5 T to 7 T
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Better image stability
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Better signal:noise ratio
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Strongest magnets can reslve activity in different cortical layers
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Higher temporal resolution
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How has MEG improved?
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Moving from SQUID to Optically Pumped Magnetometers
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Human Neocortical Neurosolver
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Dramatically improved data acquisition capabilities
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Strongest magnets can resolve activity in different cortical layers
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What are Optically Pumped Magnetometers?
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Require liquid helium
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Sensors placed directly on scalp
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But reduced signal:noise ratio
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Uses computers to map underlying circuit-level activity
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Only one place in the world has them
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Why isn't neuroimaging useful for psychiatric diagnosis?
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Low specificity
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High sensitivity
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High standardization
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Most psychiatric imaging studies are done on groups
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Different disorders have similar neural patterns
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DSM has much higher validity
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Who said that we are currently not able to use brain imaging for psychiatric diagnoses, and may not ever be?
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Farah & Gillihan
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Aubertin & Bouillaud
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Flouren & Gerschwind
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Aside from diagnosis, why might brain imaging be useful in psychiatry?
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Can suggest new treatments
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DBS came from identifying deep brain areas that are hypoactive in depression
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Quantifying and predicting treatment response
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Classifying syndromes based on neuroimaging profile
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Real-time neurofeedback may be a treatment in itself