Overview
The road that leads to scientific success, from lab bench discoveries to treatments and therapies used in medical practice, is a long trail that requires the communication and collaboration of many individuals from varied backgrounds.
While complex modern science in many fields often requires contributions from multiple team members who have different kinds of expertise, neuroimaging research simply cannot be done without an interdisciplinary approach. Interdisciplinary research differs from multidisciplinary research. In multidisciplinary research investigators from different disciplines meet and share ideas in order to solve a problem, but they return to their individual disciplines essentially unchanged. Interdisciplinary research is different: individuals from different disciplines join together to solve a problem, and both they and science are changed by the process in that they share ideas and create new knowledge. It is used to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single scientific discipline.
