Roland Beisteiner
University of Vienna, Austria

During the last decade clinical applications of fMRI have been considerably extended. Focused on work from Austria, this talk introduces current techniques and established as well as new possibilies for clinical fMRI in the field of neurology and psychiatry. This includes the reliable presurgical localization of brain functions (memory, language, motor) even in difficult patient groups (children, elderly) and its intraoperative validation (awake surgery) - new techniques for presurgical localization of epileptic foci (EEG-fMRI) - detection and prognosis of clinically hidden neuropsychological deficits (cognition, memory) - use of brain mapping to predict recovery after peripheral nervous system lesions and new diagnostic possibilies with difficult psychiatric diseases like conversion paralysis. Highly topical progress in ultra-high field MR technology and examples for clinical benefits will also be covered.