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Acknowledgements

Writing this book echoes my career as a neuroscientist and a dentist. I am grateful to Dr Shin‐Fang Yang and Dr. Mei‐Yu Chen, who showed me the road of being a scientist, Dr Irene Tracey and Dr Katja Wiech, who introduced functional neuroimaging to me during my DPhil study at the University of Oxford, and Dr Jen‐Chuen Hsieh, who inspired me with many insights on brain science during my postdoctoral research at Taipei Veterans General Hospital.

My exploration in dental neuroimaging, a new frontier in dentistry, is greatly benefited from the discussion with my colleagues from dental research: Dr Ming‐Lun Hsu, Dr Shyh‐Yuan Lee, Dr Kuo‐Wei Chang and Dr Ching‐Yi Wu, and colleagues in from brain research: Dr David Niddam and Dr Li‐Fen Chen, at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. The exploration cannot go further without the professional support from the 3T MRI Core Facility at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

I am grateful to the managers and editors from Wiley Publishing: Associate Commissioning Editor Loan Nguyen, Managing Editor Tanya McMullin, Content Refinement Specialist Samras Johnson Vanathaiya, Copyeditors Aravind Kannankara and Rathi Aravind, and Editorial Publication Coordinator Susan Engelken. I have been much benefited from their professional assistance in preparing this book.

Finally, I am lucky to see things just because I stand on the shoulders of many giants – the researchers and clinicians who devote themselves in oral medicine and neuroscience. This book will just be empty without their pioneering works. They are the true explorers in this new frontier.