Societies :
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM):
The International Society for Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine is a nonprofit professional association devoted to furthering the development and application
of magnetic resonance techniques in medicine and biology. The Society holds annual scientific meetings and sponsors
other major educational and scientific workshops
Organization for Human Brain :OHBM has evolved in response to the explosion in the field of human functional neuroimaging, and its movement into the scientific mainstream. One of the primary functions of the organization is to provide an educational forum for the exchange of up-to-the-minute and ground breaking research across modalities exploring Human Brain Mapping. This it does through a growing membership and an annual conference, held in differing locations throughout the world.Mapping
Society for Neuroscience (SFN):
The Society for Neuroscience is a nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. Neuroscience includes the study of brain development, sensation and perception, learning and memory, movement, sleep, stress, aging and neurological and psychiatric disorders. It also includes the molecules, cells and genes responsible for nervous system functioning. Recognizing the tremendous potential for the study of the brain and nervous system as a separate field, the Society was formed in 1970. It has grown from 500 members to more than 34,000 and is the world's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain.
The Society's primary goal is to promote the exchange of information among researchers. For this purpose, the Society publishes the scholarly journal The Journal of Neuroscience and holds an annual meeting each fall, attracting attendees from around the globe. The Society is also devoted to education about the latest advances in brain research and the need to make neuroscience research a funding priority.
The Society works closely with other scientific societies, disease advocacy organizations, and the National Institutes of Health. It relies on its 111 local chapters for grassroots representation of the neuroscience community. SfN chapters across North America hold scientific lectures and other activities for the educational advancement of local neuroscience communities. The Society also produces a variety of other publications.
Research Site :
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR):
CMRR was established in 1991 as a result of the rapidly growing and successful in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) research effort at the University of Minnesota.
CMRR is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research laboratory that provides state-of-the-art instrumentation, expertise, and infrastructure to carry out biomedical research utilizing the unique capabilities provided by high field MRI and MRS methodology. The central aim of the research conducted in CMRR is to non-invasively obtain functional, physiological, and biochemical information in intact biological systems, and use this capability to probe biological processes in health and disease.
Funded by NCRR/NIH as a Biotechnology Research Resource for High field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, and supported by numerous governmental and private foundations, CMRR core faculty have made significant and pioneering contributions in biological applications of magnetic resonance techniques, and possess unique expertise in very high field uses of this methodology.
Useful Website :
PubMed:
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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