title: The future of functional MRI in clinical medicine.
abstract: In the last 20 years or so, functional MRI has matured very rapidly from being an experimental imaging method in the hands of a few labs to being a very widely available and widely used workhorse of cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuroscience research internationally. FMRI studies have had a considerable impact on our understanding of brain system phenotypes of neurological and psychiatric disorders; and some impact already on development of new therapeutics. However, the direct benefit of fMRI to individual patients with brain disorders has so far been minimal. Here I provide a personal perspective on what has already been achieved, and imagine how the further development of fMRI over the medium term might lead to even greater engagement with clinical medicine.
authors.affiliation: University of Cambridge and GlaxoSmithKline, Cambridge, UK. etb23@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ed
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bullmore
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*