The conference aims to explore the key issues in functional neuroimaging, which is the new area of research, academics, practitioners, policy makers and representatives from the media.The conference will include 40-minutes talks from our Russian and foreign colleagues as well as poster sessions to encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas on following topics:• Neuroimaging techniques and applications.• Combining behavioral, neuroimaging,and neuropsychological approaches• Challenges of data analysis in neuroimaging• Functional neuroimaging has already told us a lot about cognition: Yes or No?• Clinical neuroimaging: functional mapping and functional localization - the real alternative to invasive methodologies?The working languages of the Conference are English and Russian.