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Abstract

1## INTRODUCTION fMRI is one of the most powerful and dominant imaging techniques in the living human brain by now that have entered a variety of branches of today's clinical research to apply new advances in clinical practice. Speaking of clinical trials, fMRI’s involvement in different domains is so acknowledged that in the current NIH case studies regarding their 2014 definition of clinical trials, there are specific case studies for fMRI in 6 variations trying to elucidate the distinction of the different roles of fMRI in clinical trials as a clinical measurement tool and also as an interv