For most users of imaging software, we use the skull stripping program included in our distribution.  If you’re an AFNI user, you probably use 3dSkullStrip, if you use FSL then it’s BET, and of course Freesurfer has their own in recon-step 1.  A few years ago, I advocated for using Optibet and even wrote an entirely […]

Follow these instructions for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitain.  That’s it!  It’s great when stuff continues to just work!  Well… mostly.  Depending on how you upgraded, you might have to run this command in the terminal to allow you to run applications from unsigned developers: sudo spctl –master-disable But that should really be it.

A while ago, I wrote a post for doing brain-behavior correlations with different AFNI programs.  And at the time I mentioned that you can do correlations with 3dtest++, but you’d first need to standardize (read: z-score) both the brain and behavior values.  The general logic there is that if you’re doing a simple regression (what […]

It’s been about five months since I last updated, and for that I’m somewhat apologetic.  Things have been busy and I’ve been trying to figure out a series of topics to post on for the next series.  So rest assured, there will be more analysis guides in the future.  BUT today is all about how […]