ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the development and application of resting state magnetic resonance neuroimaging (rsMRI) and traditional functional connectivity analysis and highlights the growing toolkit of dynamic analysis techniques that provide unprecedented insight into network dynamics. rsMRI is growing in popularity among the cognitive neuroscience community due to its ability to map functional networks throughout the brain noninvasively and with high spatial resolution. rsMRI requires the use of a fast imaging sequence, typically echo planar imaging, although sometimes spiral acquisition is used. While dynamic analysis of rsMRI data holds promise to vastly increase the amount of data that can be obtained from a single scan, several limitations of the technique remain. The growing community of neuroimagers utilizing dynamic analysis techniques will doubtless address these issues and develop new tools to examine network interactions within the brain.
