fMRI and toolboxes

As I am studying a lot about fMRI this semester, I learned a lot (and so many toolboxes installed in my laptop now!) about fMRI data analysis.

Of course, I definitely need tutorials to learn these stuffs as I am not familiar at all about medical images before. And it gets more and more interesting to learn about brains as the semester goes. One of the tutorials that I found so much helpful is by Andy.

http://andysbrainblog.blogspot.com

His blog is one of my stops when looking for fMRI tutorials. I like the simple and clear explanations and the step-by-step tutorials that he presented in his writing and videos.

Some of the fMRI tools that I've used (I'll probably make some description later when I have time, will put links on the tools too inshaAllah)

• SPM (this is MATLAB-based)
• FSL - contains a lot of toolboxes to analyze fMRI in different types of analysis)
• AFNI (haven't used it yet, but am interested to learn)
• R statistics
• and more others to come. 

As I'm seeing a lot of blogs/website specifically sharing methods for fMRI data analysis, I'm envisioning myself to do the same. My aim might be to put things in layman explanations - since I am learning basically a lot of new things through my PhD program, I would like for public to know the same at least the basics and what's important for normal people (non-medical especially) to know.

Pray for me to be steadfast!

ps: For my PhD preliminary exam this coming week - "O my Lord, expand my chest; ease my task for me; and remove the impediment from my speech; so they may understand what I say" Quran - Taha:25-27.