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A list of key readings about Neuroimaging.
Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

This list should eventually be split into sections - e.g. structural vs. functional imaging, clinical vs. psychological vs. comparative, or developmental vs. learning vs. aging vs. diagnostic vs. comparative. Some of these references may fit better onto the bibliographies of some of the related pages.

Synchrotron-based neuroimaging of what may be the oldest known fossil brain.
  • Steinbeis, N.; Koelsch, S. (2008). "Comparing the Processing of Music and Language Meaning Using EEG and fMRI Provides Evidence for Similar and Distinct Neural Representations". PLoS ONE 3 (5). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0002226. Research Blogging.
A brief and balanced overview over the genetic mechanisms currently deemed relevant for the evolution of the human brain, along with pointers to some related methodological issues.
Quote relevant to neuroimaging:

"...comparative genomics, which has been the main workhorse of current studies, needs to be complemented by cleverly designed in vivo and in vitro functional experiments aimed at probing the exact phenotypic consequence of evolutionary changes in DNA sequence."

Quote relevant to neuroimaging:

"We anticipate that clinical use of neuroimaging modalities in psychiatry will increase dramatically in the near future and suggest that clinicians need to be aware of the potential applications."

A well-written overview over the history of neuroimaging.
Briefly reviews the state of the art of high resolution magnetic resonance imaging in the living brain and answers the question in the title basically positively. Quote from the conclusions: "While being able to understand the relationship between brain structure and function is likely to be crucial in attaining a complete understanding of the brain, the potential of this in vivo technique for understanding diseases of the brain is considerable. It is currently very difficult to detect many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's until there has been considerable damage to the brain and patients have begun to show symptoms. If these diseases could be detected at an earlier stage, the opportunities for pre-symptomatic treatment are much greater. In the future, high resolution magnetic resonance imaging could become a standard method of detecting pathological changes in the brain at the earliest possible occasion, leading to treatment and the minimization of irreversible damage."
  • Mechelli, A.; Price, C.J.; Friston, K.J.; Ashburner, J. (2005). "Voxel-Based Morphometry of the Human Brain: Methods and Applications". Current Medical Imaging Reviews 1 (2): 105-113. DOI:10.2174/1573405054038726. Research Blogging.