When and Why Will Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Replace the Wada (IAT) and
How Will it Improve Patient Outcome?

John P. Brockway, Ph.D.
Memory Testing Corporation, Inc.

www.memorytesting.com
July 28, 2000

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See also for generalized introductory Overview:

Cohen, M.S., Bookheimer, S. Functional magnetic resonance imaging. Trends in Neuroscience.

For reliability of fMRI, see

http://memorytesting.com/fMRI.ref

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