> "Functional magnetic resonance imaging has transformed medicine."
This is not even close to true. The clinical impact of fMRI is very constrained. I've met many clinicians who have completely written it off at this point. Others that remain interested but find it mostly impractical and error prone. The only people I've met who seem to have any significant investment in it as a technology are cognitive scientists, and that's a ways from medicine.
> It allows non-invasive mapping of a patient’s brain regions to enable more accurate, precise neurosurgery,1"
Approximately nobody does this. fMRI isn't really even on the radar for most neurosurgeons. It's only recently that even detailed structural information (e.g. DTI) has got some real traction, let alone functional info. Note commercial vendors have had clinical packages on the scanners for (nearly? I forget who shipped DWI stuff first) a couple decades now. No such thing exists for fMRI, at minimum you need to buy a 3rd party processing system and may need a research key on your scanner.
Some researchers are interested in this; that's a long way from transforming anything.
> " as well as validating pharmacological effects of potential drugs on human brains.2"
There is perhaps a bit more promise here, but it's still way into the research only end. In the 15 years since the referenced paper was published, not much of this "promise" has been realized as far as I know (but this is further from my wheelhouse)
This is not even close to true. The clinical impact of fMRI is very constrained. I've met many clinicians who have completely written it off at this point. Others that remain interested but find it mostly impractical and error prone. The only people I've met who seem to have any significant investment in it as a technology are cognitive scientists, and that's a ways from medicine.
> It allows non-invasive mapping of a patient’s brain regions to enable more accurate, precise neurosurgery,1"
Approximately nobody does this. fMRI isn't really even on the radar for most neurosurgeons. It's only recently that even detailed structural information (e.g. DTI) has got some real traction, let alone functional info. Note commercial vendors have had clinical packages on the scanners for (nearly? I forget who shipped DWI stuff first) a couple decades now. No such thing exists for fMRI, at minimum you need to buy a 3rd party processing system and may need a research key on your scanner.
Some researchers are interested in this; that's a long way from transforming anything.
> " as well as validating pharmacological effects of potential drugs on human brains.2"
There is perhaps a bit more promise here, but it's still way into the research only end. In the 15 years since the referenced paper was published, not much of this "promise" has been realized as far as I know (but this is further from my wheelhouse)